ventilator

Example Sentences

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I have to use a ventilator overnight, when my breathing is more shallow than during the day.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

They may require oxygen or intravenous fluid or even be put on a ventilator to help them breathe, according to the CDC.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

"He arrived with brain trauma, sedated, drugged, breathing with a ventilator," Interior Minister Armando Benedetti said.

From Barron's • Oct. 19, 2025

They are costumed as though you asked a coma patient, freshly awake after 20 years on the ventilator, to sketch these ladies from memory.

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2025

Finally he opened the engine’s ventilator line and pushed inside the vial of physician’s cure.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan