How to Use palliative in a Sentence

palliative

1 of 2 adjective
  • And palliative care is where that fault line runs hottest.
    — Kyle P. Edmonds, STAT, 9 Apr. 2026
  • At that point, the doctors sent him home with my sister and me for palliative care.
    — Annie Lane, cleveland, 27 Oct. 2022
  • That time was often spent in a hospital, rather than at home or in palliative care.
    — Robert Pearl, Star Tribune, 23 May 2021
  • But the best thing for this patient would have been to continue on the palliative route.
    — Julie Roskamp, STAT, 24 Nov. 2023
  • And this was week two of my job as a palliative-care practitioner.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 16 June 2020
  • As of now, just as long as what is offered is a genuine palliative product, things are fine.
    — Hiren Mansukhani, Quartz India, 14 June 2020
  • Ben and his brothers hired a hospice service to provide palliative care.
    — John Rosengren, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • And many of our locations will not be able to do more than isolate people and provide palliative care.
    — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2020
  • There’s little morphine or other painkillers for palliative care.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Other palliative measure can be helpful to some.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The forces that created climate change are now selling us palliative care for climate change.
    — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Then Lucy’s mother went into palliative care.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Jonnie Irwin is opening up about spending the past three years in palliative care.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
  • Some choose perinatal palliative care in the hope of a peaceful death in the loving arms of family.
    — Abigail Wilpers and Kristen Gosnell, STAT, 1 Oct. 2022
  • His mother, then 69, was in palliative care with kidney failure.
    — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The woman rejected the palliative stage that doctors tried to assign.
    — Gerald Witt, AJC.com, 1 Mar. 2026
  • What’s the difference between hospice care and palliative care?
    — Conor Murray, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • There was no hope for survival and he was immediately placed into palliative care.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 26 Apr. 2026
  • It's intended for patients in palliative care and those in need of long-term care who cannot visit home and get quality time with their pets.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 7 July 2023
  • Better to get outside and move, if only to walk, which as counterpoint to being homebound is as palliative as any pill.
    — Star Tribune, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Good palliative care helps encourage and console patients and their families in facing the end of life.
    — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Rwanda aimed to reach everyone who needs palliative care by 2020.
    — CBS News, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Only one planned to go into geriatrics, while two were considering palliative care.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • At the time, heart surgery was largely palliative because the heart had to function during the operation.
    — A. J. Baime, Car and Driver, 31 Mar. 2020
  • But when anomalies are so severe that a newborn would die soon after birth, a family may choose what's known as palliative care or comfort care.
    — Kevin Freking, Star Tribune, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Integrating a team of palliative providers into my own treatment, to see my plight as a whole and not just on cancer's terms, has been crucial.
    — Tori Geib As Told To Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Hospice provides end-of-life palliative care with a focus on the patient’s comfort and dignity.
    — Dana G. Smith, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The law also opens up the program to people facing terminal illness and those in hospice or palliative care.
    — Eleanor Dearman updated August 15, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Aug. 2025
  • On Monday, a member of the palliative care team tested positive.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The patient must agree to accept comfort care (also known as palliative care) instead of medical care to cure the illness.
    — Margie Zable Fisher, Fortune Well, 11 Aug. 2023

palliative

2 of 2 noun
  • The disease has no cure, but a number of palliatives exist.
  • Travel is like a palliative against depression for him.
  • In summary, pediatric palliative care aims to bring light to a dark time and a sense of peace.
    — Amanda Alladin, M.d., miamiherald, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Watching someone give in to chaos and panic can be palliative for an audience.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
  • In fact, the growth of palliative care and hospice is one of the most significant movements in recent years.
    — Guest Columnist/cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Watching vets choose to endure their pain can be hard for families, as well as for palliative care doctors and nurses.
    — April Dembosky, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Several studies show that early palliative care has been shown to help patients live longer and better.
    — Liz Szabo, CNN, 15 June 2017
  • The sentence is spoken to a palliative-care nurse who has been tending the writer’s dying mother.
    — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 9 May 2018
  • Young is trained in internal medicine and rheumatology, as well as hospice and palliative-care medicine.
    — Karen Farkas, cleveland.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • At least 84 percent were already enrolled in hospice or palliative care.
    — Hattie Xu, sacbee, 30 June 2017
  • Burda said palliative care allows the patient the option of going back and forth to the hospital.
    — Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 20 Apr. 2018
  • After that decision — or if the drug doesn’t work — what kind of palliative care is available when death is not in six months away but may be six years away, or longer?
    — Jason Karlawish, STAT, 20 Dec. 2019
  • This rewardingly democratic night, in this time of endless crazy, feels like a palliative.
    — Washington Post, 1 July 2021
  • The palliative care team is encouraging him to dial back on his father’s aggressive care.
    — Karen Weintraub, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2018
  • The center is one of the largest pediatric palliative care programs in the United States.
    — Megan Becka, cleveland.com, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Doctors have prescribed Vantas, along with other forms of Lupron, as a palliative for prostate cancer.
    — Tyler O'Neil, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Physicians’ attitudes toward palliative and hospice care have likely shifted in the past decade.
    — Orly Nadell Farber, STAT, 9 July 2018
  • His exasperation with the world at large can seem studied at times, a gimmicky palliative to take the offending edge off his humor.
    — Keith Uhlich, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Uslander doesn’t dispute that palliative care can go a long way toward easing the burdens of terminal patients.
    — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 July 2017
  • The reports did not log data on opioids used to treat opioid use disorder, cancer patients or those who receive hospice or palliative care.
    — Ryan Faircloth, Twin Cities, 28 June 2019
  • Getting outdoors has never been more important—as a pastime, but also as a palliative for our mental and physical woes.
    — Matt Bean, Sunset Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
  • At 12 weeks into the study, depression symptoms in the palliative care group were roughly half those reported in the standard care group.
    — Devan Stuart Lesley, PEOPLE.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • There have been no reports of abuse from nurses across the country, said Mukasahaha, the nation's palliative care director.
    — CBS News, 26 Dec. 2019
  • The New York financier, who uses a wheelchair and back brace, was admitted to palliative care in July.
    — Caitlin Yilek, Washington Examiner, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The new Downton Abbey movie is a drug, a delight, a palliative for the pain of being, a balm for battered emotions, a cure for cynicism.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Disabled people in wheelchairs were lifted too, their hands reaching out to the passing holy figure — proximity as palliative.
    — Nick Madigan, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2017
  • Leven said New York was one of the relatively few states to have enacted laws governing palliative care.
    — Joe Sexton, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Skepticism exists even among Gwynn’s peers in the pediatric palliative care industry.
    — Eleanor Cummins, Slate Magazine, 3 Jan. 2017
  • Prior to that, natural opiates such as morphine and synthetic opioids such as oxycodone were mainly used for acute short-term pain, cancer and palliative care.
    — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Now Ouchi and others are trying to come up with systematic ways to identify which patients could benefit from palliative care.
    — Melissa Bailey, Kaiser Health News, 26 May 2017

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