How to Use dialysis in a Sentence

dialysis

noun
  • Since then, she's been on dialysis for four hours a day, three days a week.
    — Rob Stein, NPR, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The surgery was needed to insert a catheter in his neck for dialysis.
    — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The 60-year-old has also been on dialysis for six years.
    — Myah Taylor, Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Was dialysis even an option for a 92-year-old in this time of Covid-19?
    — Judith Graham, CNN, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Okojie said some players went to the ICU and that some were on dialysis.
    — Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Her 48-year-old patient had skipped the dialysis that kept him alive.
    — Anna Wilde Mathews, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2021
  • He was forced to go on dialysis and put on the liver transplant list.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Soon, her kidneys shut down, and doctors had to put her on round-the-clock dialysis.
    — Vivian Wang, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2020
  • It was known at the school that Mertens was on dialysis, given that the 64-year-old left school for treatment three days a week.
    — Kelsie Smith, CNN, 5 Dec. 2020
  • The effort has yielded more than just clues about the past, as the case of the six dialysis patients in Cambridge shows.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Hugh was on dialysis and badly in need of a transplant.
    — Usa Today Network Ventures Staff, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2021
  • His nights at the club were replaced with four-hour-long days of dialysis treatments three times per week.
    — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Looney said it’s been wonderful to live without the need to go to dialysis all day.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The woman had come to Centerpoint to get a new port for her dialysis.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 7 June 2024
  • His wife cheered him on and helped him while on dialysis, along with his sister and daughters.
    — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 4 July 2022
  • John was on dialysis at the time, and would receive treatment three times a week for at least three hours at a time, the GoFundMe page says.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The girl was one of five children in the dialysis department at the moment of the attack on July 8.
    — Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 26 July 2024
  • Martha Landymore, 55, is a dialysis nurse who has lived a block away from Children’s for four years.
    — Emily Woodruff, NOLA.com, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Gaither goes for dialysis at least three times a week on Brentwood Road in northeast D.C.
    — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Then her kidneys began to fail, and she was placed on dialysis.
    — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The wider and stronger blood vessel then can be used in kidney dialysis treatment.
    — Patrick Kennedy, Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Josh’s right lung collapsed, his kidneys failed and he was put on dialysis.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Three-times-a-week dialysis treatments can only sustain the 53-year-old for so long.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2021
  • On the down side, a second episode -- in which Drew goes to dialysis and makes some eccentric new friends -- already starts to feel a tad stale.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Both needed dialysis to clear the fluid that was clogging their lungs.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2021
  • The Wales resident started dialysis and was put on a transplant list, but by June 2021, there still wasn't a match.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 27 Apr. 2023
  • In August 2020 Collins had to start emergency dialysis three days a week for four hours.
    — Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2021
  • People who need a heart are on death's door where people who need a kidney have been kept alive via dialysis.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Her mother battled the disease, and endured eight grueling years on dialysis before passing away at the age of 60, serving as a stark reminder of the challenges ahead.
    — Julia Fomby, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease and had been on dialysis for more than two years to compensate for his failing kidney function.
    — Alice Park, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025

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