How to Use graft in a Sentence

graft

1 of 2 noun
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  • The graft still combats the cancer but perhaps not the host.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022
  • After a tissue graft, lips will be swollen and stiff for about a week.
    — Jolene Edgar, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 June 2023
  • That’s the graft, the point where the rootstock and the fruiting wood are grafted together. Cut the main trunk of the tree to hip height.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2022
  • If hustling and hard graft were an Olympic sport, Yashere would deserve a gold medal.
    — Seven Graham, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2022
  • That’s the graft, the point where rootstock and the fruiting wood are grafted together.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Thaksin was sentenced to eight years in jail on graft charges on his return from 15 years in self exile.
    — TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
  • To protect young citrus trees, mound soil at least 12 to 18 inches high around base of tree to protect graft union.
    — Roger Simmons, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Seng survived the attack but had to undergo skin-graft surgery.
    — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2021
  • There was just so much graft in the construction industry.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Building a business or movement requires a lot of hard graft!
    — Rebekah Bastian, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The graft that takes the place of the diseased aorta is very strong, and the connections on either side are likewise unlikely to fail.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 9 June 2022
  • Seeing it for the first time, the effect is soothing and layered, the hard graft behind it undetectable.
    — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Grant received an arterial graft, taking a vein out of his left leg to give him a new popliteal artery in his right.
    — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2023
  • And, as history tells us, perfection takes time and hard graft.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2024
  • There was a series of surgeries to remove dead skin and graft replacements.
    — Mike Baker, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Meanwhile, with huge sums of money flowing into Ukraine, the graft may well be worse than ever.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Xi’s experience with Bo proved in his mind that factions and graft threatened to bring down the party.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The case pits money-as-free-speech claims against the government’s interest in curbing graft.
    — Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2022
  • But the company’s vision is arguably at odds with those doing the daily graft.
    — Morgan Meaker, Wired, 30 Nov. 2021
  • But there was a lot of petty graft—people trying to make money off of being the President.
    — Tyler Foggatt, The New Yorker, 17 June 2023
  • The new treatment does not come with the risk of graft versus host disease the way that a traditional bone marrow transplant does.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Nov. 2023
  • He has since been convicted and jailed in a graft case, following which he has been barred from taking part in any election for five years.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Less than 6% of patients had the more major complication of full nipple graft loss.
    — H Conley, STAT, 2 June 2023
  • Government agencies must build in safeguards to avoid graft.
    — Time, 23 Aug. 2023
  • But anywhere there is money, there is potential for graft.
    — Andrew Beaton and Ben Cohen, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The cabinet-level shake-up comes amid a wide-ranging crackdown on graft as Ukraine seeks to project to its Western backers a hard line on the issue.
    — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2023
  • As a general rule of thumb, the more extensive your hair loss issues and the higher the number of grafts that need to be transplanted, the more expensive the surgery.
    — Maria Williams, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • As if all the years of his education, and his hard graft in medical school, could have been meant to end in that ghastly bedsit, or in a stuffy flat in Purley!
    — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The case pitted money-as-free-speech claims against the government’s interest in curbing graft.
    — Dallas News, 16 May 2022
  • That has put pressure on Zelensky and the Biden administration to show progress against graft.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2023
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graft

2 of 2 verb
  • The next step is to attempt to graft the tree to preserve it and, in years to come, pass the tree to others.
    — oregonlive, 1 July 2021
  • Then, in the third year, the plant is grafted together.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
  • And in one test, the team achieved the same with human hair that had been grafted onto mice.
    — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 12 July 2023
  • The grafted rose with all its canes and blooms was forever gone.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
  • In the nearly four years that have passed since the incident, Bolger has had surgery to graft skin to repair the damage.
    — Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Any apple variety can be a dwarf if the tree is grafted to a dwarf-sized rootstock, Mohn says.
    — Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Fruit growers who graft trees should remove thorns from the rootstock when grafting.
    — oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Shafer says that surgeons will sometimes graft fat into the thighs or hips, depending on what body shape the patient wants.
    — Audrey Noble, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Learn how to graft apple or pear trees using bench grafting techniques.
    — Corey Sheldon | , oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And as doctors began the slow work of grafting healthy skin onto her wounds, she was placed under round-the-clock sedation.
    — Mike Baker, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Sometimes, even after several weeks the swelling has not receded enough to close the wound, so surgeons have to graft skin over the opening.
    — Gina Kolata, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Many are grafted to combine the ideal flower onto a strong rootstock.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
  • It could then be grafted on top of the bill that House Democratic leaders are trying to force onto the chamber floor, the congressman said.
    — Tony Romm, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
  • This allows guests to graft their own tales onto the Adventureland Treehouse and the family that lives there.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Eight of the operations were major surgeries where tissue was taken from another part of the body and grafted to the injured area of the face.
    — Juliet Butler, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The sculptor also grafted a west-facing porch onto his house, an 1817 former inn.
    — David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
  • At the moment, doctors often take blood vessels from one part of a patient's body and graft them into another body part.
    — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2019
  • That’s because there are limits to how much fat surgeons can remove and graft during a single procedure; even more, not all of the fat transferred will stay.
    — Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • And in Texas, someone allegedly did the same to a female teacher, grafting her head onto a woman in a pornographic video.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Trump appears to be missing his ring finger on his right hand, at the very least, and his thumbs are grafted on in a jumbled mess that seems to defy basic human anatomy.
    — Matt Novak, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Those grafted atop a straight trunk of Higan cherry (P. x subhirtella) offer a more formal look.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 13 June 2023
  • In surgery, a small incision is typically made and a tendon grafted from another area of the body may be used to fix the ruputure and reconnect the Achilles.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • In this hands-on workshop, participants will graft and take home a semi-dwarf producing apple tree, suitable for the coastal climate.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022
  • To this day, all of Europe’s famous grapes grow on vines that have been grafted onto American rootstock to protect against phylloxera.
    — Alex Mayyasi, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Patterson sent over all the parts from his Heroes & Gods sessions, so Harris could graft vocal leads, harmonies, and ad-libs onto the new compositions.
    — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Currently—and ultimately?—Porsche has jacked up the car and grafted a number of hi-tech behavioral fixes into its outdated chassis.
    — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 21 Feb. 2023
  • There’s a temptation, seen widely throughout commentary on the event over the past few weeks, to graft it onto ongoing disputes about campus culture.
    — David M. Perry, CNN, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The stone walls are hollow and grafted onto a steel frame, masking a complex system of ventilation and climate control inside a building that has more than 1,000 rooms.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2023
  • The generation born into a fraught promise of social mobility can find some element of the movie to graft their own feelings onto.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The researchers tested this by grafting human skin samples onto mice, then giving the animals three injections of the molecule, spaced one day apart.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 24 June 2023

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