How to Use nurse in a Sentence

nurse

1 of 2 noun

• The nurse will take your blood pressure before the doctor sees you.
• Nurse, may I have some water?
• The next record shows that the nurse called the police.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• The nurses did not get far before the guns opened fire again.
  — Michael Washburn, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
• In the hospital, a nurse strapped an oxygen mask to my face.
  — Courtney Lund O'Neil, Parents, 18 Sep. 2023
• For example, the rate is more than 12 times that of nurses.
  — Amy Brittain, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2023
• From people like the nurse in Ohio, to the general public?
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
• His mother, Hellen, was a nurse and his father, Louis Sr., a porter.
  — Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• Illinois nurse who was terrorized by her ex turned to the court for help.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2023
• One of the exceptions to the rule was a nurse and pro-life activist, Jeanne Head, who would bring him roses.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 22 Jan. 2024
• Halfway through, a nurse edged a cup of tea and a serving of carrot cake into view.
  — Matthew Taylor King, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2023
• The nurses, for example, stripped his bandages all at once, as per the cliché.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
• For a nasty cut, Lopez is in good spirits, now laughing and winking with the nurses.
  — Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
• The nurses held on firmly as the building continued to shake.
  — Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
• But a lot of them are medical people, nurses, and so on.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
• But the nurse misunderstood and told Julia’s mother to bring her to Chico.
  — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2024
• When the child got worked up, she’d sometimes be allowed to sit with that social worker or in the nurse's office to calm down.
  — Sarah Butrymowicz, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
• One nurse at the clinic suffered a severe sprained ankle.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
• Neta said that his mom, who had worked as a nurse and midwife, spoke in Arabic to try to calm down the attackers.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 10 Oct. 2023
• The search for a kidnapped Detroit nurse ended with the grim discovery of her body in the trunk of a car and police said the suspect is her ex-boyfriend.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 15 May 2023
• Goins and Smith started at Choate as nurses, while Davis joined Choate staff in 2000 as a social worker.
  — Beth Hundsdorfer, ProPublica, 11 July 2023
• The Tennessee nurse stayed quiet in hopes that her silence would quiet false claims of her death.
  — Nbc News Digital Art Department, NBC news, 21 Dec. 2023
• That unimaginable thing, when nurse and mother-of-three Becky Bliefnick was found murdered in her home.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
• The nurse told the doctors that their efforts did help the boy, who finally was able to communicate.
  — Tony Holt, arkansasonline.com, 19 Nov. 2023
• The complex had an on-site manager and groundskeeper, but no nurses or aides.
  — Jack Healy, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• One case led to criminal charges against jail medical staffers — a doctor and a nurse.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2024
• Earlier this year, the nurses held a fundraiser in Scout's honor.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
• Instead, a nurse joined them in a windowless room that was running low on blankets.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2024
• Cassy Leach, a nurse, leads a volunteer group providing food, medical care and other basic goods to the town’s hundreds of homeless people.
  — Claire Rush, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2024
• The following year, a nurse at the facility pleaded guilty to tampering with the fentanyl meant for the women’s procedures, having replaced the opioid with saline.
  — Dr. Sharon Malone, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024

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nurse

2 of 2 verb

• The dog nursed her puppies.
• The puppies nursed for eight weeks.
• The couple nursed the business through hard times.
• The baby nursed for several months.
• She is nursing her son through his illness.
• He nursed the farm back to productivity.
• The team nursed a 1–0 lead until the last inning.
• The man could nurse grudges for years, even after his foes had died.
  — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
• Here’s what to know about the toll winter can take on your skin—and how to nurse it back to health.
  — Korin Miller, Health, 14 Feb. 2024
• The dog mom nursed, cleaned, and cuddled the kitten until his death.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2023
• Mom Calaya, 20, has been nursing the baby, the zoo said.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 30 May 2023
• Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 22 June 2023
• The off week allows players to nurse their nicks and bruises.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2022
• But less than 24 hours later, Zoe nursed her newborn for the first time.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023
• But the shot was left short, so with 2 minutes left in this game, the Macks are still nursing a 1-point lead.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2023
• Smith has missed the last nine games over a month, nursing a stress fracture in her left foot.
  — Chloe Peterson, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Aug. 2023
• He was being kept as a pet, the owner was evicted and the sanctuary took in the sick pig and nursed him back to health.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2023
• And Badger Balm is the perfect stocking stuffer that will nurse those knuckles back to life.
  — John Thompson, Men's Health, 2 Dec. 2022
• Miller is nursing a groin injury and missed his first nine shots of the tournament.
  — John Zenor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2023
• Miller has been nursing a groin injury and missed his first nine shots of the tournament.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 19 Mar. 2023
• James, who sat out the second game of a back-to-back set, has been nursing a left ankle injury.
  — Khobi Price, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2024
• Beside him, his wife nursed their 6-month-old daughter.
  — Juan Arredondo, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
• While most women do have the ability to nurse in that way, some may have challenges, Rice says.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 31 Aug. 2022
• He’s got a chair set up right in front of the stage for Sharon Davis, who’s sitting there singing her ass off nursing a broken knee.
  — Bart Bull, SPIN, 20 Feb. 2023
• According to the myth, when Hera was nursing Heracles (Hercules), the infant spilled some of the milk and streaked it across the sky.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2023
• Patrick Mahomes is running in ski boots, and two weeks is not a lot of time to nurse that ankle back to some semblance of health.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
• If someone is nursing a ginger ale for an hour, then all bets are off.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2023
• All four newborns and their mother are in good health, with all the babies starting to nurse within hours of their birth.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
• Throw a steak, brisket, or pork butt onto a grill, keep an eye on the temperature, and nurse a beer until it’s done.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• Arguments that blow over quickly and hurts that are nursed forever.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024