as in needle
a slender hollow instrument by which material is put into or taken from the body through the skin
the syringe the nurse was leveling at my arm looked to me to be at least 10 inches long
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The court heard that she had only been fed milky cereal through a syringe.
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Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
That’s why Lottie had her cult followers kidnap Natalie at the beginning of season 2, and her time on the compound seems to have brought Natalie some peace… until Misty accidentally stabbed her with a syringe full of poison.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 13 Feb. 2025
All three were hooked up to machines that provided a readout of their vital signs, and all three were prepared to have a syringe of manufactured blood injected into their veins.
—Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Au contraire, the new law and the accompanying abundance of product draw addicts to the state like liquid into a syringe.
—Matt Thompson, SPIN, 3 Feb. 2025
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Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
That’s why Lottie had her cult followers kidnap Natalie at the beginning of season 2, and her time on the compound seems to have brought Natalie some peace… until Misty accidentally stabbed her with a syringe full of poison.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 13 Feb. 2025
All three were hooked up to machines that provided a readout of their vital signs, and all three were prepared to have a syringe of manufactured blood injected into their veins.
—Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Au contraire, the new law and the accompanying abundance of product draw addicts to the state like liquid into a syringe.
—Matt Thompson, SPIN, 3 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for syringe
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“Syringe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syringe. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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