Sentences with 'pumped'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pumped and other words derived from it.
• « Blood pressure is the pressure of the blood as it is pumped through the major arteries of the body. »
• « Another physician, William Harvey (1578 - 1657), proved conclusively that blood flows through the body by being pumped by the heart, not emanating from the liver as previously believed. »
• « The portion of ore whose specific gravity (density in relation to water) is less than 2.6 - about 99.5 per cent - is brought to the surface and pumped out. By contrast, diamonds, which have a specific gravity of 3.5, sink along with other heavy substances. This mixture, of which only one hundredth is made up of diamonds, is spread out again on conveyor belts. »
• « On 2 April I went to the Montefiore Medical Centre. Over the next four days, 8,000 rads of radioactive material were pumped into my brain: a dose so high that visitors had to protect themselves behind a lead shield. »