How to Use small intestine in a Sentence

small intestine

noun

• These sugars don’t break down in the small intestine.
  — Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 26 Dec. 2025
• These fibers don’t fully break down in your stomach or small intestine.
  — Morgan Pearson, Verywell Health, 24 Sep. 2025
• These are open sores that form in the lining of the stomach or the first part of the small intestine.
  — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 15 Mar. 2026
• This, in turn, slows the rate at which food moves from your stomach into your small intestine.
  — Julia Ries Wexler, Outside, 4 Feb. 2026
• As the friend stumbled, one bullet hit him in the buttock and pierced his small intestine.
  — Simon Hughes, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
• Fructose is absorbed in the small intestine.
  — Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 13 Aug. 2025
• Afterward, the amino acid chains travel to the small intestine.
  — Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 18 Aug. 2025
• There was a bowel obstruction in my small intestine.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
• The mogrosides in monk fruit aren't broken down quickly, the way that sugar is in the small intestine.
  — Brianna Tobritzhofer, Health, 16 Feb. 2026
• This time, not only her small intestines, but also her large intestines, pancreas, and liver.
  — Chilekasi Adele, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
• This can in turn move food out of the stomach and into the small intestine more efficiently.
  — Bryn Beeder, The Conversation, 17 Nov. 2025
• The glucose is then absorbed through the small intestine into the bloodstream.
  — Patty Weasler, Verywell Health, 23 Oct. 2025
• The glucose is then absorbed through the small intestine into the bloodstream.
  — Patty Weasler, Verywell Health, 6 Apr. 2026
• Zinc and copper are absorbed in the small intestine using the same transport system.
  — Lindsay Curtis, Verywell Health, 11 Feb. 2026
• The suction from the pool drain had caused catastrophic internal damage and pulled her small intestine from her body.
  — Meghan Schiller, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
• Ingestible capsules offer a way in, providing direct access to the small intestine and colon.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2026
• That's because broccoli is high in fiber and contains raffinose, a sugar the body can’t fully digest in the small intestine.
  — Lindsey Desoto, Health, 6 Jan. 2026
• This type affects the lower part of your digestive system, such as the small intestines, so symptoms show up later compared to the emetic type.
  — Brandi Jones, Health, 18 Sep. 2025
• His small intestine and esophagus had also migrated up.
  — Amber Gaudet updated February 20, Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2026
• When this is not possible or if the needle has moved further along into the small intestine, abdominal surgery may be needed.
  — Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 15 Feb. 2026
• Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder that causes the body to attack the small intestine when a person eats gluten.
  — Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 20 June 2026
• Researchers found that alcohol can cause called neutrophils, a type of immune cell, to end up damaging the lining of the upper small intestine.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
• By binding to cholesterol in the small intestine, cholesterol is not absorbed into the bloodstream and is instead excreted from the body.
  — Jennifer Moll, Verywell Health, 2 Oct. 2025
• Then, in 2019, Horan was diagnosed with lung cancer that had spread to her small intestine.
  — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025
• For people with celiac disease, gluten triggers an autoimmune response that damages the small intestine.
  — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 8 Jan. 2026
• Most digestive enzymes are produced by the pancreas, but some originate in the mouth, stomach, and small intestine itself.
  — Caroline Tien, SELF, 11 Mar. 2026
• The small intestine can’t digest fiber in the same way as other kinds of carbohydrates, so unlike sugar or starch, for instance, fiber is not a great source of fuel for the body.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 23 Feb. 2026
• Protein intake can slow the process of gastric emptying (the rate at which the food leaves the stomach and enters the small intestine) to promote a feeling of fullness.
  — Jamie Johnson, Verywell Health, 23 Dec. 2025
• CaBot diagnosed an obstruction in the small intestines, possibly owing to volvulus or a hernia.
  — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
• In the operating room, her surgeon made a long incision down her abdomen, cut out the fist-size pouch of her stomach, and stitched her esophagus to her small intestine.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2026