open vein

Example Sentences

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But before those questions about what’s ahead for the Capitals came Ovechkin’s open vein of a statement.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2017

“Bird Balloons” lies along that same open vein, lines like “It was a fragile thing and I goddamn dropped it” throbbing with the pain of young love and loss.

From Time • Feb. 22, 2013

For now they can take satisfaction in knowing that Trainspotting has hit an open vein in pop culture--at home and now, perhaps, despite its director's misgivings, in the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

This imminent danger is hæmorrhage, or an increase of the physiological flow to such an extent that the vitality of the patient is drained as from an open vein.

From The Education of American Girls by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)

The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein.

From Lord Jim by Conrad, Joseph