How to Use donate/give blood in a Sentence

donate/give blood

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  • Teenagers stand in line shivering in the snow to give blood.
    — Fariba Nawa, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Feb. 2023
  • And people near the site of the crash were lining up to donate blood.
    — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 2 June 2023
  • But there has also been scrutiny over rules for who can donate blood in the US.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
  • People who want to donate blood must be in good health and meet weight and height requirements.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Do pet parents have to pay any money to allow their pets to donate blood?
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Greek civilians lined up to donate blood for injured Turks.
    — Margherita Stancati, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2023
  • What are some reasons why a person couldn't donate blood?
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Locals lined the streets to donate blood after the deadly attack.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
  • More gay and bisexual men are now able to donate blood.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • What are the requirements for a pet to be eligible to donate blood?
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The new guidance will affect everyone who wants to donate blood.
    — Teddy Amenabar, Fenit Nirappil and Laurie McGinley, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Jan. 2023
  • In thanks for helping, the Red Cross is offering several incentives to donors who come out to give blood or platelets in the coming weeks.
    — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 14 July 2023
  • On Thursday morning, dozens of people lined up for a second day to donate blood at a clinic located a few blocks from the school.
    — Constant Méheut Vladimir Zivojinovic, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • Hundreds of young people lined up to donate blood at a government hospital in the city of Soro in Odisha, reported the Guardian.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2023
  • One blood transfusion center in the city of Valladolid even made an urgent plea for donors to give blood because stocks were running low in the heat.
    — Rachel Chaundler, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
  • So there is a chance, albeit very small that someone has received a live Covid-19 vaccine within 2 weeks of wanting to donate blood.
    — Victoria Forster, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Scores of people also showed up at a local hospital to donate blood.
    — Ashok Sharma, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
  • The use of walking blood banks, or soldiers who can give blood for emergency transfusions while out in the field, also improved survival rates.
    — Luis Alvarez, STAT, 24 Mar. 2023
  • People don’t need to know their blood type to donate blood, but giving blood allows a convenient way for health experts to discover a donor's blood type.
    — Fox News, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The line in Tel Aviv to donate blood was over half a mile long, and people stood, quietly and patiently, sometimes organizing themselves in rounds of singing to raise their morale.
    — TIME, 12 Oct. 2023
  • To donate blood, bring a blood donor card or driver’s license or two other forms of identification.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2021
  • New rules from the Food and Drug Administration that will allow more gay and bisexual men to donate blood are now final.
    — Liz Essley Whyte, wsj.com, 11 May 2023
  • Community members should call the church office to make an appointment to donate blood.
    — Becca Martin-Brown, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2022
  • And the team didn’t find any diminished likelihood that these individuals would donate blood or get their flu shot.
    — WIRED, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Residents lined up to donate blood, and aid organizations and governments across the world prepared to help.
    — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Why would someone give to charity or donate blood or run into a burning building to save another?
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
  • People who are taking medication to prevent or treat an HIV infection would be asked to wait to donate blood under the new guidelines.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 11 May 2023
  • Images posted on social media showed long lines of volunteers waiting to donate blood in Larissa, the city closest to the accident.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The plan is to enroll 1,500 firefighters in the study who will donate blood or plasma for a year, monitoring for DNA methylation cancer biomarkers.
    — Patricia Kime, Hannah Norman, Kff Health News, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Greenberg encouraged people to make an appointment to donate blood through the American Red Cross.
    — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 11 Apr. 2023

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