How to Use feeding tube in a Sentence

feeding tube

noun
  • With the machine running, add the olive oil through the feed tube in a very thin stream.
    — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2019
  • James had to eat through a feeding tube, breathe through a trach tube and learn to walk again.
    — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Medics would roughly insert a feeding tube up his nose and down his throat.
    — New York Times, 28 Oct. 2021
  • For Chase and his dad, though, that feeding tube is a badge of a warrior.
    — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 23 May 2017
  • The body in the bathroom is kept alive with a feeding tube, while the other free is free live their life.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The day of his discharge, a nurse broke his feeding tube and replaced it with one that didn't work right.
    — Ann Gorewitz, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Marsha has a scar on her hip from a dog bite as a child and a scar on her stomach from a feeding tube.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Gerlach, who is in poor health, uses a wheelchair and feeding tube.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 27 June 2023
  • With processor running, add butter pieces through feed tube, a piece at a time.
    — Terri Milligan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Her husband sought to remove the feeding tube, while her parents fought to keep her alive.
    — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Marsha has a scar on her hip from a dog bite as a child and has a scar on her stomach from a feeding tube.
    — NBC News, 5 Dec. 2021
  • The authorities force-fed her through a feeding tube, her lawyers said.
    — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 13 May 2024
  • What happens when Dad doesn’t want a feeding tube, or doesn’t want one anymore?
    — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Genevieve George, a feeding tube in her nose, smiled as teammates hugged her and told her how much she was missed.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2021
  • In the emergency room, when a nurse put a feeding tube up his nose, blood started gushing out.
    — Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Sutton would need round-the-clock dialysis and a feeding tube to survive.
    — Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2021
  • There’s her feeding tube and the ventilator that keeps her breathing at night.
    — Joseph Shapiro, NPR, 8 June 2024
  • Memphis police described her as 3 feet tall with a feeding tube on the left side of her stomach.
    — Ashley Paige, Peoplemag, 16 June 2023
  • With the blender running, slowly pour 1/4 cup oil through the feed tube until combined.
    — Kate Merker, Country Living, 10 Aug. 2018
  • The baby has a tracheotomy to assist him with breathing, as well as a feeding tube.
    — Raven Brunner, Peoplemag, 19 June 2024
  • The drug comes in a powder that is dissolved in water and can be swallowed or given through a feeding tube.
    — Laurie McGinley, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Every 7 days one of them enters a coma, kept alive through a feeding tube, while the other roams free.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The man led her back out to the yard where the woman had just caught another duck and was stuffing the feeding tube down its throat.
    — Mathias Énard, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • With the blender running at the highest speed, drizzle the olive oil through the feed tube until emulsified.
    — Joe Yonan, Twin Cities, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The feed tube attachment was too small to hold a medium-sized tomato or a one-pound block of mozzarella cheese.
    — The Good Housekeeping Institute, Good Housekeeping, 20 Mar. 2013
  • In one video, a woman stands in her kitchen and lifts the hem of her sweatshirt to reveal a feeding tube sitting just above her navel.
    — WIRED, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Ry, who speaks a few words and phrases, is autistic, has Down syndrome and uses a feeding tube.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Richard now weighs 16 pounds and has started crawling and eating baby food by mouth rather than a feeding tube.
    — Washington Post, 23 June 2021
  • Mix the water and vinegar together, and add the mixture through the feed tube of the food processor.
    — Wolfgang Puck, Twin Cities, 12 June 2019
  • The twins had been born three months early, barely a pound each, and had been put on ventilators, feeding tubes, the works.
    — Matthew Klam, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020

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