How to Use ventilator in a Sentence

ventilator

noun

• 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
• The tube connects to a ventilator, a machine that pushes air in and out of the lungs.
  — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 9 Oct. 2024
• Lotte was able to come off the ventilator last Monday and came home later in the week.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 26 Sep. 2021
• Two years ago, at the Shed in New York City, there was a version that was filled with a ventilator.
  — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 9 Sep. 2024
• Her daughter needed a week in the NICU and some time on a ventilator, too.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• In all, Calderon spent 71 days in the hospital, 60 of them on a ventilator.
  — oregonlive, 23 June 2021
• 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
• The team had to intubate and place her on a ventilator.
  — Author: Evan Bush, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2021
• Who refused to send ventilators to blue states out of spite?
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 July 2024
• He was paralyzed from the neck down and would likely need a ventilator for the rest of his life, the report said.
  — Fox News, 23 July 2021
• Moon spent 79 days in the hospital, 39 of them on a ventilator.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], 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
• During her third visit, she was put on a ventilator in the ICU.
  — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 23 Nov. 2024
• Of those, 3 are in intensive care and one is on a ventilator.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 14 Sep. 2021
• 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
• He was placed on a ventilator and then on an ECMO machine (to oxygenate the blood outside the body).
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2021
• 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
• During the height of the pandemic, Russia and the United States did exchange medical equipment such as ventilators.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024
• There’s also that tear-jerking moment when May marshals a neighborhood full of people to gather their extension cords to recharge and restart a young boy’s ventilator.
  — Laura Bradley, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Jan 2025