arteries

NOUN

channel

Synonyms

STRONGEST

avenue boulevard corridor duct highway passage pathway road route sewer thoroughfare tube

STRONG

canal conduit course line track way

Example Sentences

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A blood-red tree descends, its skeletal branches and ropy roots suggesting veins and arteries.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Get on the freeway and you understand the whole body of the city at once: the arteries, the pulse, the scale of the thing.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

The depth of the scarring from this conflict, on gas supply, and on control of one of the world's key economic arteries, remains an open question.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

High blood pressure develops when the force of blood pushing through the arteries stays consistently elevated.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

Its arteries coated with what looks like foie gras, it seizes up one day.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides