Sample Sentences forcapillary (editor-reviewed)
-
•
Blood flow velocity decreases in the capillaries because of the increase in total cross-sectional area.capillaries = smallest blood vessels
-
•
The narrow alleys are the capillaries leading to the streets that lead to the boulevards.capillaries = narrow passage
-
•
She tests with a capillary tube.capillary = narrow
Show 3 more sentences
-
•
I was afraid she'd bust another capillary from the strain.† (source)
-
•
Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitive capillary hairs in the nylonbrushed nostrils of the creature that quivered gently, gently, its eight legs spidered under it on rubber-padded paws.† (source)
-
•
From a distance, it looks like a simple vial, but stepping up to look at it more closely Hiro can see at least half a dozen tiny individual compartments inside the thing, all connected to each other by capillary tubes.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 2 word variations
-
•
Capillaries in our retinas were spontaneously hemorrhaging.† (source)
-
•
The corpse spun around, staring at David as though every vein and capillary would burst.† (source)
-
•
But already the water is filling her capillaries, improving the flow of her blood; already she thinks more keenly.† (source)
-
•
They are not that massive, but they come equipped with a capillary, a very tiny channel, that emerges here, as you can clearly see, just above the tip.† (source)
-
•
All my tissues hurt when I saw them, when I saw Rose with them, as if my capillaries were carrying acid into the furthest reaches of my system.† (source)
-
•
The Old Magic that crested within him was terrifying, electric surges of energy that rocketed through every vein and capillary.† (source)
-
•
His gaze keeps sliding toward the mess on her head, the shiny clump of brain tissue, the crisscrossing network of veins and capillaries.† (source)
-
•
The wallpaper was short-lived in humid weather because it ate up all the nutrients and then went grey; also it could not tell the difference between drooling lust and murderous rage, and was likely to turn your wallpaper an erotic pink when what you really needed was a murky, capillary-bursting greenish red.† (source)
-
•
Broken capillaries in his face, in his eyes.† (source)
-
•
She struggled against Loki's will so intensely that a capillary had burst across her forehead, making a dotted red line there.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)