How to Use life support in a Sentence

life support

noun
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  • She was put on life support.
  • He was removed from life support.
  • How did the tech world’s next big thing end up on life support?
    — Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The child was put on life support on May 6 and died two days later, Maj.
    — Claudia Dominguez, CNN, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Her love cell has been on life support since her last breakup.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
  • In the fall of 2007, the Atlanta power pop trio Y-O-U was on life support.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 13 Dec. 2021
  • That is when the decision was made to take her off life support.
    — David Begnaud, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2024
  • By this time, Angela Craig was on life support, and the outlook was grim.
    — Sarah Prior, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The woman was placed on life support and died a week later.
    — Fox News, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Box office sales of 3D movies are on life support and have been for some time.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
  • There’s the dying of an old system that’s on life support.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Nov. 2021
  • As a result, the actor was in a coma, on life support, for two weeks.
    — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The young girl was taken off life support just a few days later.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 28 July 2023
  • On Saturday, the 1-year-old boy was put on life support.
    — Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Rose played well, but after Trick One, the defense was on life support.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The mother was still on life support when the physician left two weeks later.
    — Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Foltz died three days after he was put on life support.
    — CBS News, 17 June 2022
  • The next day, Bonham said, the hospital told him the man had been taken off life support.
    — Moe Clark, ProPublica, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Rodriguez, the mother of a 5-month-old boy, was taken off life support and died Oct. 5.
    — Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2021
  • He was taken off life support Oct. 4, the complaint said.
    — Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2021
  • He was placed on life support for several days and died Jan. 16.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Saturday's loss to Notre Dame has put the Tigers' playoff hopes on life support.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2022
  • One of her cousin’s injuries left her in a coma and on life support, from which she was soon removed.
    — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • When Helen got to the hospital, she was placed on life support.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Barely a month ago, the role of the starting pitcher in baseball appeared to be on life support.
    — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Hadley was pronounced dead when she was taken off life support at about 10 that night.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2022
  • David Kiefel, 61, is well into a second month on life support.
    — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The golf establishment had hoped LIV would be on life support by now.
    — Kevin Cook, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2022
  • But after a rocky first term, his reelection bid is on life support.
    — Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The Bengals fell to 1-4, and their playoff aspirations are on life support.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2024

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