How to Use nursing in a Sentence

nursing

noun
  • She has been employed in nursing for several years now.
  • What are the best nursing pads to buy?
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
  • What are top 10 cities for nursing salaries?
    — Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 1 May 2026
  • Pups move from one mother to the next, nursing freely.
    — Big Think, 8 May 2026
  • Now, mom and baby are both healthy and the calf is nursing well.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Ifill’s path to nursing was anything but easy.
    — Nancy Badertscher, AJC.com, 7 May 2026
  • The floor will have three nursing stations.
    — Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Nearly a decade of bedside nursing will do that to you.
    — Monica Cutia, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Today, Rakestraw is in her ninth year of nursing.
    — Nancy Badertscher, AJC.com, 7 May 2026
  • For Ifill, nursing is more than a career.
    — Nancy Badertscher, AJC.com, 7 May 2026
  • So the daughter finds the number of the nursing bay and calls that.
    — Weike Wang, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2024
  • His father worked as a plumber, his mother as a nursing aide.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2022
  • But at that time, testing was not available in nursing homes.
    — Hannah Dreier, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Others may work in nursing homes, which have had high rates of outbreaks.
    — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2022
  • After three weeks, the nursing piglets are taken away.
    — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 18 May 2026
  • These folks living long term in nursing homes may not need any skilled nursing care at all.
    — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • But the jury is still out on how helpful nursing robots are to staff.
    — Rebecca Cairns, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Krantz said most have either died, moved away to live with their children, or are in nursing homes.
    — Pam McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Also present in the photo was a stroller and a nursing pillow.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Some nursing pads also come with mesh bags for machine washing.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The Phillies lined the room, sitting at their lockers and nursing beers.
    — Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • But there are also police overalls, a nursing cape, and a welder’s mask.
    — Danica Kirka, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2024
  • The complaint was referred to the nursing board, which ignored it.
    — Niran Al-Agba, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The adhesive strips on these nursing pads help keep them in place, even throughout the night.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Sharon Sanders, 55, a nursing student, wants to help.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Graduate nursing, the most talked-about one, appears safe for now.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • Wash your bra, nursing clothes, pajamas, and bed sheets in hot water or bleach to kill the yeast.
    — Donna Murray, Rn, Parents, 3 July 2024
  • Shirley Ifill didn’t come to nursing by accident.
    — Nancy Badertscher, AJC.com, 7 May 2026
  • Fleenor’s path to nursing began early.
    — Nancy Badertscher, AJC.com, 7 May 2026
  • That new moms don’t leak at work, that precious breastmilk never gets spilled in the nursing room.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026

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