How to Use small intestine in a Sentence

small intestine

noun
  • These sugars don’t break down in the small intestine.
    — Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 26 Dec. 2025
  • These fibers don’t fully break down in your stomach or small intestine.
    — Morgan Pearson, Verywell Health, 24 Sep. 2025
  • These are open sores that form in the lining of the stomach or the first part of the small intestine.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 15 Mar. 2026
  • This, in turn, slows the rate at which food moves from your stomach into your small intestine.
    — Julia Ries Wexler, Outside, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The small intestine was attached to his bowel and then surgeons had to wait.
    — Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The food then mixes with digestive juices from the first part of the small intestine.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Second, the surgeon will connect your small intestines to an opening of the pouch.
    — Brandi Jones, Msn-Ed, Health, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Now they've been used to show which cells within the small intestine can be infected by the virus.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 May 2020
  • The cause was cancer of the small intestine, according to his son.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 22 June 2018
  • As the friend stumbled, one bullet hit him in the buttock and pierced his small intestine.
    — Simon Hughes, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Nicholas' ileum, the final section of his small intestine, is full of pus and ulcers.
    — Mark Johnson and Kathleen Gallagher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Dec. 2010
  • During emergency surgery, half of her small intestines were removed, plus a bit of colon.
    — Lauren Levy, Good Housekeeping, 2 Mar. 2018
  • There are dishes that people avoid, like chitterlings [a dish made from small intestines of a pig].
    — Nikita Richardson, Bon Appetit, 25 Sep. 2017
  • An initial necropsy found a mass in her small intestine and a cystic lesion in her brain.
    — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The new solution sticks to the lining of the small intestine and can be loaded up with drugs.
    — Pratibha Gopalakrishna, STAT, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Fructose is absorbed in the small intestine.
    — Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Once a cat eats, the stomach empties within a few hours as food moves into the small intestine.
    — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The stomach holds food and breaks it down before passing it into the small intestine.
    — Joy Emeh, Health, 19 Sep. 2024
  • In a few cases, the virus persisted in small intestine cells at low levels for weeks or even months.
    — Lenny Bernstein, Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Afterward, the amino acid chains travel to the small intestine.
    — Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Donahoe swabs the palate of our mouth, then squishes our right small intestine like a panini.
    — Karen Helle, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
  • These are carbohydrates found in some foods that are not well-absorbed in the small intestine.
    — Elizabeth Pratt, Health, 26 May 2024
  • There are more bacteria in the large intestine than in the small intestine.
    — Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 16 May 2025
  • There was a bowel obstruction in my small intestine.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
  • Digestive enzymes and acid in your stomach break down the food which is then passed through to the small intestine.
    — Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY, 31 July 2022
  • The small intestines move around the abdominal cavity freely, like snakes in a bag.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The mogrosides in monk fruit aren't broken down quickly, the way that sugar is in the small intestine.
    — Brianna Tobritzhofer, Health, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Since they’re both absorbed by the small intestine, they should be spaced out so as to not compete for absorption.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2024
  • What was once contained to his right kidney has moved on to his liver, the lining of his small intestines and even an artery in his leg.
    — Nick Talbot, ExpressNews.com, 15 May 2020
  • The cause was cancer of the small intestine, said his son, Daniel Krauthammer.
    — Adam Bernstein, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2018

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