How to Use digestive tract in a Sentence

digestive tract

noun
  • This is the shrimp's digestive tract.
    — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 29 Oct. 2025
  • There are no teeth inside the digestive tract past the mouth.
    — Joe Graedonteresa Graedon, The Seattle Times, 28 Nov. 2018
  • The virus could enter through the mouth but grow in the digestive tract.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 8 June 2020
  • Fluids help food and waste move through the digestive tract.
    — Lindsey Desoto, Health, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Grass hay, which is high in fiber, keeps your pet bunny’s digestive tract healthy.
    — Caitlin McLean, USA TODAY, 25 July 2022
  • When swallowed, they can get stuck in the mouth, throat, or digestive tract.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2025
  • This gives your meds enough time to make their way from your digestive tract to your bloodstream.
    — Christine Byrne, Mph, SELF, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Even a short flight can upset your pet’s digestive tract — this goes for cats as well as dogs.
    — Christine Ryan, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2020
  • In some species, their hearts are enlarged to pump more blood, or their digestive tracts grow and then shrink.
    — Elizabeth Landau, Quanta Magazine, 19 May 2025
  • Red meat, for example, can take days to move through the digestive tract.
    — Julie Poole, Bon Appétit, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Larger pieces of bread can also block a bird’s digestive tract.
    — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Some seeds, which are what acorns are, need animals to pass them through their digestive tract.
    — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Your gut is lined with nerves that work to expand and contract to push food through your digestive tract.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Motility refers to how food moves through the digestive tract.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
  • The digestive tract holds valuable clues about your overall health.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Mar. 2026
  • One reason for this is the muscles in your digestive tract weaken with age.
    — Julie Marks, Verywell Health, 28 Nov. 2024
  • My digestive tract thanks me on a daily basis (or bugs me a little less).
    — Bon Appétit, 12 June 2019
  • Blood is also high in iron, which can disrupt the digestive tract and liver.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Her vocal cords were paralyzed, as were some of the nerves in her digestive tract.
    — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • This is because the acids in your stomach and digestive tract need to dissolve the pill first.
    — Kirstyn Hill, Health, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Is there something about the smell of ink and paper that triggers our digestive tracts?
    — Popular Science, 13 Feb. 2020
  • These cancers can cause bleeding in the digestive tract and lead to anemia.
    — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 June 2025
  • Such ulcers can let food and digestive juices leak out of the body’s digestive tract.
    — Colleen Slevin, Denver Post, 22 July 2025
  • The trillions of bacteria that live in our digestive tract don’t just help break down food.
    — Lauryn Higgins, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
  • But these burrows appear to have avoided the area around the digestive tract.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2023
  • As with other fruit, Ng says that the fiber in yuzu helps support the digestive tract.
    — Emily Laurence, Good Housekeeping, 4 Jan. 2023
  • In your digestive tract, the colon’s lining turns over every five to seven days.
    — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 3 July 2025
  • These products are plant foods that have been highly processed by the digestive tracts of pigs and cows.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Many of these plant species have adapted for their seeds to move through an animal’s digestive tract.
    — Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Gallstones can sometimes be removed through a scope passed down the digestive tract.
    — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 5 May 2020

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