blood bank
Example Sentences
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And Alexandre’s movie theater, with its bloody spectacles, gets replaced by something very different: a blood bank, a monument to recovery.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
Some proponents have argued that prescreening is enough—that blood obtained from a walking blood bank during an emergency shouldn’t have to be screened at the time of donation if a donor recently tested negative.
From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025
Mudather died the next morning because the hospital's blood bank had been decimated by a long power outage and he could not get the transfusion he needed.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025
Frankie receives a treat after his owner brought him in to donate blood at Insight Veterinary Wellness Center, a 24-hour pet hospital that opened a canine community blood bank.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2024
She got so much blood that one doctor wrote a note in her record stopping all transfusions “until her deficit with the blood bank was made up.”
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
