in one's blood
IdiomsExample Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Perhaps then, being an author is just in one's blood.
From Salon • Jan. 1, 2022
Once one gets the virus in one's blood, it's likely to break out any time.
From The Tigress by Warner, Anne
The influence of summer is like a poison in one's blood, with a sudden bewildered sickening of life and all things.
From Aesthetic Poetry by Pater, Walter
When one has got the passion for the chase in one's blood, one cannot bide for long in a stuffy office.
From The Lost Naval Papers by Copplestone, Bennet
It comes to men on the Canadian prairies; it throbs in one's blood when the summit of a mountain is reached; it is borne on the wings of the twilight harmonies in a lonely forest.
From The Parts Men Play by Baxter, Arthur Beverley
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
