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
For days he insisted on the saucer promenade, taking nourishment only by applying his wayward little tongue to each foot in turn.
From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Bates, Katharine Lee
It will be ready in a few minutes and I never let a wayfarer leave my house without first taking nourishment.
From Canadian Fairy Tales by MacMillan, Cyrus
