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
• In the final days of her life, she was kept alive by a ventilator.
  — Ashley Vega, People.com, 28 Apr. 2025
• 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
• And her father died from the virus while on a ventilator.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 3 Dec. 2020
• Less than a week after going on the ventilator, Jim died at the age of 74.
  — jsonline.com, 27 Nov. 2020
• 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
• His wife, Jane, went on a ventilator, then off, then back on again.
  — New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020
• The 19-year-old on life support with a ventilator taped to his mouth, whose girlfriend spoke to Ruiz at the ICU door.
  — Chris Kenning, courier-journal.com, 20 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Matthews was in the hospital for three weeks, and on a ventilator six days.
  — CBS News, 12 July 2020
• 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
• The number of patients on a ventilator rose by two, to 99.
  — John Moritz, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2020
• Who refused to send ventilators to blue states out of spite?
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 July 2024
• The number of patients on a ventilator fell by five, to 116.
  — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2020
• Due to that outbreak, a young coach and close friend of Rose’s recently came off the ventilator and is lucky to be alive.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 25 Aug. 2020
• Jonathan survived two days in the hospital, hooked up to a ventilator, giving his family a chance to donate his organs and say their final goodbyes.
  — Michele Haddon, USA Today, 14 July 2025
• There were barely enough curtains to give people attached to ventilators some privacy.
  — Simon Hughes, New York Times, 19 May 2025