taking nourishment
Example Sentences
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While the condition condemned victims to a lifetime of drooling and taking nourishment through an implanted tube into the stomach, his paper in the journal Surgery was virtually ignored in America.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2016
His husband, Jeff Woodman, said that Mr. Bernhardt had been in declining health and had stopped taking nourishment after breaking his arm in a recent fall.
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2015
Within three days they were taking nourishment normally, and since then have gained steadily in weight�the boy even more rapidly than the girl.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is the nature of some to be capable of nothing more than taking nourishment, and, as a consequence, of growing and generating.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
He refused to eat, saying that the food was not fit to eat, and that he would refrain from taking nourishment until he was given better food.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard
