Graft in a sentence as a noun

Really not a fan of "sprout", "harvest" or "graft".

What are taxi medallions for if not graft and log-rolling?

I'm getting a skin graft on Monday after I gave myself 1% full thickness burns with 3 x 9v batteries.

Of course, some of that 50 billion gets eaten by graft, and that's where the problem a lot of people have with government programs.

They can graft principles like privacy onto those making "privacy" into an identity issue.

Graft in a sentence as a verb

They could ask: "Why have a coronary artery bypass graft operation at a place where you have a 1-in-6 chance of dying compared with a hospital with a 1-in-100 chance of dying?

In 2009 Prochymal suffered a major setback as two separate trials showed that, while the drug was safe, it failed to improve the condition of patients with graft-versus-host disease.

Prochymal is currently being tested in trials that will assess, not only its ability to mitigate graft-versus-host disease, but Crohns Disease as well.

But GNU has also accumulated a lot of more standalone projects, so instead of axing them or adding unnecessary dependencies by trying to graft them together, I like the idea of transitioning them to be "FSF" projects, each managed by their own teams, with the FSF serving in a support role to provide resources, publicity, and possibly funds.

Public sector graft and private sector lying, cheating and thieving, both need to be stopped and big, small government, or running government like a business doesn't seem to help.\nInstead, working towards an ethical and just society with clear and equitable consequences for all does seem to help.\nSo in this case, follow the money, retrieve all that was gotten through ill gotten gains, and hand out jail sentences.\nAs for the rest of us, we still have a bridge to deal with.

Graft definitions

noun

(surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient

See also: transplant

noun

the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage

See also: bribery

noun

the act of grafting something onto something else

See also: grafting

verb

cause to grow together parts from different plants; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree"

See also: engraft ingraft

verb

place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient

See also: transplant