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How to use bleed in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Bleed means to shed blood through an injured blood vessel. Example: “If her nose bleeds, try to use ice.”

Examples of bleed by meaning

verbTo shed blood through an injured blood vessel.

  • If her nose bleeds, try to use ice.

verbTo menstruate.

  • You haven't bled.2020 December 25, Chris Van Dusen, “Diamond of the First Water”, in Bridgerton, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Lady Portia Featherington

verbTo steadily lose (something vital).

  • The company was bleeding talent.

verbTo spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.

  • Ink traps counteract bleeding.
  • The ink bled only a little; if one raised the index card to one’s eye, it was possible to see the microscopic wisps and flicks seep out from the intended lines and curves out into the paper’s grain.2020, Eley Williams, The Liarʼs Dictionary, William Heinemann, page 201

verbTo tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.

  • At low engine speeds, valves open to bleed some of the highly-compressed air from the later compressor stages, helping to prevent engine surging.
  • High-pressure air bled from the APU is used to spin up the engines and run the APU generator and hydraulic pump, and can also be used to pressurise the cabin if necessary.

verbTo show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.

  • He was a devoted Vikings fan: he bled purple.

verbTo lose sap, gum, or juice.

  • A tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.

verbTo destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.

  • Labialization bleeds palatalization.

More sentences with bleed

  • Most slang begins in small communities, but some words bleed out into wider society over time.From the entry bleed out
  • Look at those poor little children without shoes on their feet. My heart bleeds for them.From the entry one's heart bleeds
  • Slaughtered livestock is usually bled dry prior to butchering.From the entry bleed dry
  • His heart bled for his beloved home country.From the entry one's heart bleeds
  • Some rocket engines have a total loss hydraulic system for engine gimbal, using fuel bled from the main turbopumps as the working fluid.From the entry total loss
  • As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.From the entry beat
  • I was worried about having a VBAC because my mother nearly bled to death when she gave live birth to me after having had a cesarean.From the entry VBAC
  • By the time it reaches the bottom, it has bled out.2023, Bryan Hollomon Williams, Hollomon Speaks: Thinking Through 2020 & 2021. From the entry razor bladed
  • Her heart bled for this man who'd had to raise his baby daughter alone.2022, Cat Johnson, City Girl Seeks Cowboy, →ISBN, chapter 18, page 117. From the entry papa bear
  • It had alumni in high places in business and finance who, like Swensen, bled Yale blue.2019 September 11, Drake Bennett, Janet Lorin, Michael McDonald, “How David Swensen Made Yale Fabulously Rich”, in Bloomberg News. From the entry Yale blue
  • Anyway, that's how Jimmie came to be shivved and left to bleed out in the shower.2016, Andrew Shaffer, The Day of the Donald, Crooked Lane Books, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry shiv
  • A paraplegic St John's Wood man bled to death after trying to saw off his own legs.2011 June 23, Juliet Eysenck, “Paraplegic man died trying to saw off leg”, in Westminster Chronicle. From the entry saw off
  • Creating a full-page bleed for a colour magazine using even 35mm film is far more challenging.2011 December 31, N.V., “Difference Engine: Point, shoot, discard”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry toe-nail
  • Also, I bleed for the welfare of our children among our growing population of feral underclass.2010, Mark A. Bruhwiller, The Last Dog Watch: A Memoir of a Wilful Young Lad, page 108. From the entry bleed for
  • Leaving plaque along the gumline leaves gums swollen and inflamed and apt to bleed.2007 December 20, Martha Schindler Connors, “Pearly Wisdom”, in New York Times. From the entry gumline
  • "I am not going to stand by and watch this company bleed to death.2005 June 21, Thomas McCarroll, “Corporate Raider on the Ropes”, in Time. From the entry cash in one's chips
  • Mom has to eat that!" "Where's the chili sauce?" "Don't you dare bleed on Mom's breakfast!"1995, R. Kent Hughes, Barbara Hughes, Common Sense Parenting, page 55. From the entry Bombeckian
  • From lips notched in the pinebranch bled no confession, but a clot of resin.1993, Rosanna Warren, Stained Glass, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 50. From the entry pinebranch
  • Abacinate, eyes that bleed, praying for the end of your wide awake nightmare.1986, Jeff Hanneman, “Angel of Death”, in Reign in Blood, performed by Slayer. From the entry abacinate
  • He bleeds for the Negro, he bleeds for the Jew, he bleeds for the oppressed peoples.1967 July 7, William A. McWhirter, “How Art Swindlers Duped a Virtuous Millionaire”, in LIFE, volume 63, number 1, page 54. From the entry bleed for
  • Better weakly to bleed to death than to melt to extinction week by week.1926 July 22, “The Crow’s-Nest”, in The Royal Gazette and Colonist Daily, volume 6, number 172, Hamilton, Bermuda, →OCLC, page 3. From the entry asinicide
  • I have known a few old skunkers to bleed skunks and other fur-bearers with their knives.1925, E. J. Dailey, Traplines and Trails: A Book of Master Trapping Methods, fifth edition, Columbus, Ohio: Hunter-Trader-Trapper Company…. From the entry skunker
  • He unmanned himself under a pine-tree and bled to death on the spot.1906, James George Frazer, Attis, Otis, Osiris, volume 1, page 264. From the entry unman
  • There are shootings, stabbings, car wrecks, falls and other accidents that can create a fatal bleed out situation.2023 December 3, David Martin Davies, “Stopping the bleed out to save lives”, in Texas Public Radio, archived from the original on 21 Feb…. From the entry bleed out
  • Perhaps these principles will bleed into other fields of biology, leading to erosion of the traditional emphasis on proprietarity.2017, Andrew W. Torrance, “Better to Give Than to Receive: An Uncommon Commons in Synthetic Biology”, in Brett M. Frischmann, Katherine J.…. From the entry proprietarity
  • There's no hard shift between the “doms”; they just bleed into each other like watercolors on cheap paper.2007, Allyson Beatrice, Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby? - Page 12. From the entry friendom
  • It was as if the roads were veins that bled off lifeblood but never pumped it back in.2006, James E. Kibler, Memory's Keep, page 55. From the entry lifeblood
  • A longer knife, or an extra twist, and Moe would've bled to death before the meat wagon arrived.2004 February 1, Desdemona, “{ASSM} Rough Cut: Chap 1 by Desdmona (crime drama)”, in alt.sex.stories.moderated (Usenet). From the entry Harlem sunset
  • Faulks had bled his own prose white, draining it of emotion in order to capture the endless enervating slog of war.1996 February 11, Michael Gorra, “Tunnel Vision”, in The New York Times. From the entry slog
  • The menstruater is defiled and defiling because, as she bleeds, she strays beyond the socialized towards the realm of death.1996, John Kerrigan, Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon, Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry menstruater

Meaning of bleed

  1. verb To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.
  2. verb To menstruate.
  3. verb To let or draw blood from.

Full definition of bleed

Questions about bleed in a sentence

How do you use bleed in a sentence?
Bleed is used as a verb and noun. For example: “If her nose bleeds, try to use ice.”
What is a short sentence with bleed?
“Labialization bleeds palatalization.”
What does bleed mean?
Bleed means to shed blood through an injured blood vessel.

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