How to Use ventilator in a Sentence

ventilator

noun
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  • The patient was put on a ventilator.
  • He was placed on a ventilator for a while as Hennessy worked back from the surgery.
    — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Her daughter needed a week in the NICU and some time on a ventilator, too.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Then, someone removes the tube from her ventilator and points it at the dessert, which blows it out.
    — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The next month, my mom’s brother was placed on a ventilator.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The number of the state's virus patients who have ever been on a ventilator rose by eight, to 2,976.
    — Andy Davis, Arkansas Online, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Heche had suffered burns that required the use of a ventilator to breathe.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Who refused to send ventilators to blue states out of spite?
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 July 2024
  • Moon spent 79 days in the hospital, 39 of them on a ventilator.
    — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Today, the 2-year-old breathes with the aid of a tracheostomy and ventilator as a result of a brain injury.
    — Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • His son had to go on a ventilator and died the next day, said Collins, who has been vaccinated.
    — David Williams, CNN, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Mitchell survived the March crash but suffered a fractured neck and a broken leg and had to be placed on a ventilator.
    — Faiz Siddiqui, Jeremy B. Merrill, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
  • On March 15, when she was admitted to the hospital for the last time, she was put on a ventilator.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 12 July 2023
  • However, the new ventilator is still a work in progress.
    — Ida Emilie Steinmark, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2023
  • There’s her feeding tube and the ventilator that keeps her breathing at night.
    — Joseph Shapiro, NPR, 8 June 2024
  • Fewer patients than in the Delta wave are so ill as to need a ventilator or high-flow oxygen.
    — Eric Boodman and Isabella Cueto, STAT, 14 Jan. 2022
  • In September 2020, Sloan took a hit to the head during a game and was rushed to the hospital, where he was placed on a ventilator.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Even with the help of the BiPap machine, a type of ventilator, her oxygen stats were trending down.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 1 Jan. 2022
  • But by Friday, nurses were able to take her off the ventilator.
    — Vanessa G. Sánchez, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2022
  • In the days that followed, both of Chandler's lungs collapsed and she was placed on a ventilator, according to the page.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Even the ventilator wasn’t going to keep her from dying.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Seven people were taken to the hospital, and one of them is on a ventilator, the chief said.
    — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 29 May 2024
  • Soon after, the husband says, his wife suffered a series of seizures and was placed on a ventilator.
    — Bycharles Piller, science.org, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The sisters then raced to the hospital, where their brother was on a ventilator.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2023
  • For now, the focus is on getting him off the ventilator, according to Knight.
    — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Assouline is now paralyzed from the neck down and is on a ventilator.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Sun Sentinel, 6 July 2022
  • At the hospital, Ms. Willis-Prater, who was 42 at the time, was connected to a ventilator that pumped air into her lungs.
    — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 28 May 2023
  • The mariachi legend died four months after suffering a fall that put him on a ventilator in the ICU.
    — Daniela Avila, PEOPLE.com, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Warner is the home of Superman and the films that shot the unknown actor to stardom before a tragic horseback riding accident left him a quadriplegic dependent on a ventilator to breathe.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The Chinese government helped facilitate a donation of 1,000 ventilators that will arrive in JFK today.
    — Gloria Pazmino, CNN, 3 Sep. 2024

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