How to Use ventilator in a Sentence

ventilator

noun

• The patient was put on a ventilator.
• For the first month of his life, Zion was on a ventilator, fighting to live.
  — Colleen Murphy, Health.com, 7 May 2021
• 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
• Once on the ventilator, many will not regain enough strength to breathe on their own.
  — Nina Shapiro, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
• The pope is not attached to a ventilator but is still struggling to breathe.
  — Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 22 Feb. 2025
• 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 virus patients who have ever been on a ventilator rose by two, to 1,518.
  — Andy Davis, Arkansas Online, 27 Feb. 2021
• 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
• Her heart rate and blood pressure dropped, and the doctors put her on a ventilator.
  — Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2025
• 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
• A week after that, she was put on a ventilator in a last-ditch effort to save her life.
  — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 18 Dec. 2020
• 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
• For six days, her father was hooked up to a ventilator.
  — Christina Estes, The Arizona Republic, 22 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Neher was put on a ventilator, and could no longer call.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 18 Jan. 2021
• During her third visit, she was put on a ventilator in the ICU.
  — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 23 Nov. 2024
• She's looked on with dread as the sickest, fighting to survive, were hooked up to a ventilator.
  — Star Tribune, 7 Feb. 2021
• 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
• She was put in a paralytic coma and placed on a ventilator.
  — Addie Hunter, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025