flesh and blood

Example Sentences

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Dude No. 1 will always be Brady, a sixth-round pick now immortalized outside Gillette Stadium with a behemoth bronze statue that’s probably only a tick slower in the 40 than the flesh and blood original.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

Often, it's the first time a medical student works with real flesh and blood - an experience that can't be replicated from a textbook.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2025

Behind the headlines and beyond the numbers, flesh and blood people are cut off from basic necessities, including food, clean water, and medical care.

From Salon • Aug. 3, 2025

First, the threats to the new evangelization are not of flesh and blood.

From Slate • Sep. 23, 2024

I certainly hope you take greater care in monitoring the activities of your prisoners than you do in watching your own flesh and blood.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko