sickle
Example Sentences
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At the front of the room was the ruling Communist Party’s hammer and sickle logo, with a sign declaring the meeting’s purpose: “Symposium of unmarried young women of the right age.”
From New York Times
Purporting to be based in San Francisco, its profile picture shows a blond woman wearing a fur hat with a hammer and sickle badge.
From Washington Post
Mr. Lewis has sickle cell disease, which can cause fatigue, chronic pain and organ damage and leaves him especially vulnerable to infectious diseases.
From New York Times
DeSantis mentioned good candidates were elderly people and those with chronic kidney disease, diabetes, morbid obesity and sickle cell.
From Washington Times
These vectors can be engineered to be much safer, says Punam Malik, a hematologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital whose team is developing a gene therapy for the blood disorder sickle cell disease.
From Science Magazine
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
