How to Use dialysis in a Sentence

dialysis

noun
  • Wilma was able to keep him off dialysis for nine months.
    — Nadia Kounang, CNN Money, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Since then, she's been on dialysis for four hours a day, three days a week.
    — Rob Stein, NPR, 17 Dec. 2024
  • He was forced to go on dialysis and put on the liver transplant list.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The surgery was needed to insert a catheter in his neck for dialysis.
    — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Dixon has been on dialysis for three years due to kidney failure.
    — Bella Waters, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2025
  • Then her kidneys began to fail, and she was placed on dialysis.
    — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The worst is at dialysis, the appointments that save his life three times a week.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Andrews was hooked up to a dialysis machine three days a week for up to six hours at a time.
    — Nadia Kounang, CNN Money, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Josh’s right lung collapsed, his kidneys failed and he was put on dialysis.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2022
  • His wife cheered him on and helped him while on dialysis, along with his sister and daughters.
    — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 4 July 2022
  • Soon, her kidneys shut down, and doctors had to put her on round-the-clock dialysis.
    — Vivian Wang, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2020
  • The dialysis clinic across the street was closed on weekends.
    — baltimoresun.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Her 48-year-old patient had skipped the dialysis that kept him alive.
    — Anna Wilde Mathews, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Johnson's life now depends on dialysis three times a week.
    — Stephanie Stahl, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • His chances of living five more years on long-term dialysis are just around 35%.
    — Nadia Kounang, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
  • His nights at the club were replaced with four-hour-long days of dialysis treatments three times per week.
    — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Half of dialysis patients will die within five years.
    — Randy Simpkins, Boston Herald, 2 June 2026
  • Looney said it’s been wonderful to live without the need to go to dialysis all day.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The wider and stronger blood vessel then can be used in kidney dialysis treatment.
    — Patrick Kennedy, Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Both needed dialysis to clear the fluid that was clogging their lungs.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2021
  • The bank upgraded the dialysis service provider to buy from hold.
    — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 6 May 2026
  • The woman had come to Centerpoint to get a new port for her dialysis.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 7 June 2024
  • Sixty-six-year-old Tim Andrews had been on dialysis for two years.
    — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 16 May 2025
  • For now, Davis spends three days a week on dialysis, waiting—and hoping—for the match that could give her her life back.
    — Essence, 5 Dec. 2025
  • One type of home dialysis requires surgery to get a catheter placed in the abdomen and up to 15 days of training.
    — Arielle Zionts, NPR, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Three-times-a-week dialysis treatments can only sustain the 53-year-old for so long.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Was dialysis even an option for a 92-year-old in this time of Covid-19?
    — Judith Graham, CNN, 19 Aug. 2020
  • There was no running water for the first week; the dialysis machines had to be lugged to the adult hospital next door.
    — Jen Kirby, Daily Intelligencer, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Right now, more than 25 kids in San Diego are stuck on dialysis, their childhoods paused.
    — Melanie Sniff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Sadly, more than half of dialysis patients die within five years waiting for a kidney.
    — Gabriel Schnickel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2026

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