How to Use feeding tube in a Sentence

feeding tube

noun

• With the machine running, add the olive oil through the feed tube in a very thin stream.
  — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2019
• For Chase and his dad, though, that feeding tube is a badge of a warrior.
  — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 23 May 2017
• Turn machine on and pour half the liquid through feed tube.
  — ExpressNews.com, 18 Dec. 2019
• The day of his discharge, a nurse broke his feeding tube and replaced it with one that didn't work right.
  — Ann Gorewitz, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2021
• Genevieve George, a feeding tube in her nose, smiled as teammates hugged her and told her how much she was missed.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2021
• Marsha has a scar on her hip from a dog bite as a child and a scar on her stomach from a feeding tube.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022
• The payoff would be big: the removal of his feeding tube and the return to a normal diet.
  — Anna Kuchment, Dallas News, 3 Oct. 2020
• Marsha has a scar on her hip from a dog bite as a child and has a scar on her stomach from a feeding tube.
  — NBC News, 5 Dec. 2021
• Medics would roughly insert a feeding tube up his nose and down his throat.
  — New York Times, 28 Oct. 2021
• The man led her back out to the yard where the woman had just caught another duck and was stuffing the feeding tube down its throat.
  — Mathias Énard, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
• With the blender running, slowly pour 1/4 cup oil through the feed tube until combined.
  — Kate Merker, Country Living, 10 Aug. 2018
• With the machine running, slowly pour in half of the coconut oil through the feed tube; then half of the lemon juice; and then the remaining half of each.
  — Wolfgang Puck, Twin Cities, 26 June 2019
• Her husband sought to remove the feeding tube, while her parents fought to keep her alive.
  — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2023
• Mix the water and vinegar together, and add the mixture through the feed tube of the food processor.
  — Wolfgang Puck, Twin Cities, 12 June 2019
• With the blender running at the highest speed, drizzle the olive oil through the feed tube until emulsified.
  — Joe Yonan, Twin Cities, 1 Aug. 2019
• The scientists fed a slurry of feces to the old mice using a feeding tube twice a week for 8 weeks.
  — Rachel Fritts, Science | AAAS, 9 Aug. 2021
• With the motor running, drop 1 large shallot, peeled, and 1 clove garlic, peeled, into the feed tube and whiz.
  — Lisa Futterman, chicagotribune.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• What happens when Dad doesn’t want a feeding tube, or doesn’t want one anymore?
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021
• In one video, a woman stands in her kitchen and lifts the hem of her sweatshirt to reveal a feeding tube sitting just above her navel.
  — WIRED, 1 Aug. 2023
• The authorities force-fed her through a feeding tube, her lawyers said.
  — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 13 May 2024
• Mitchell’s son, Brantley, had open-heart surgery when he was born due to a defect and was taken home with IVs and feeding tubes.
  — al, 2 Apr. 2020
• Sutton would need round-the-clock dialysis and a feeding tube to survive.
  — Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2021
• Gerlach, who is in poor health, uses a wheelchair and feeding tube.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 27 June 2023
• Every 7 days one of them enters a coma, kept alive through a feeding tube, while the other roams free.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• In the emergency room, when a nurse put a feeding tube up his nose, blood started gushing out.
  — Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2021
• Memphis police described her as 3 feet tall with a feeding tube on the left side of her stomach.
  — Ashley Paige, Peoplemag, 16 June 2023
• Ronan and Keaton curl up on a couch and love seat while Pandya changes her husband’s shirt and pours medicine into his feeding tube.
  — Tom Murphy, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2022
• The drug comes in a powder that is dissolved in water and can be swallowed or given through a feeding tube.
  — Laurie McGinley, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Sep. 2022
• After weeks in the hospital, Maysen relies on a feeding tube to eat and has lost 25% of his body weight.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
• There’s her feeding tube and the ventilator that keeps her breathing at night.
  — Joseph Shapiro, NPR, 8 June 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024