How to Use breathing tube in a Sentence

breathing tube

noun
  • Cox is on a breathing tube and is paralyzed from the chest down at the moment, Crump said.
    Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2022
  • The EMTs tried to intubate him but could not insert the breathing tube.
    Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Soon, the patient will end the wait by waking up and trying to yank out his breathing tube.
    New York Times, 22 July 2021
  • Often attached to breathing tubes that go into the body through the nose or mouth.
    Boone Ashworth, Wired, 2 June 2020
  • The joy spilled out after waking up from the 5 1/2-hour surgery, when a breathing tube was removed.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
  • At the same time, her second patient pulled out their breathing tube.
    Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2022
  • An early post said his breathing tube was out and a scan looked promising.
    Jason Carroll, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022
  • When the team removed the breathing tube from his throat, Greener could wiggle his big toe.
    Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Some moments stayed seared in his mind: When a young woman tore out her own breathing tube.
    Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The surgery opens a direct path through the neck and into the airway so that doctors can insert a breathing tube.
    Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Hooked to a breathing tube, IVs, and a monitor, there was no denying the cancer any longer.
    Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022
  • The breathing tube will be removed and the ventilator shut off.
    Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The bronchoscope device is snaked through that breathing tube running from the mouth into the lung.
    Julie Washington, cleveland, 25 June 2021
  • The protocol in Alabama called for Smith to be strapped to a gurney and fitted with a mask and a breathing tube.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The woman was being treated with a breathing tube and appeared to have suffered a fall.
    Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The trachea, the breathing tube that connects the upper airways of nose and mouth to the lower airways of the lungs, seemed to be strangely narrow near the top.
    Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Hamlin had his breathing tube removed on Friday and walked with help that same day.
    Jenny Vrentas, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2023
  • But shortly after, doctors hooked her up to IVs and breathing tubes.
    Kelly Ragan, USA TODAY, 28 June 2018
  • Tyson had seen the hospital photograph of Nichols, his face battered and swollen, a breathing tube in his mouth.
    Jamie Thompson, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Per the station, police say the toddler used a breathing tube, which was found detached from her, tangled in her hair.
    Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com, 23 June 2022
  • Doctors, concerned his throat would swell shut, also put him on a breathing tube.
    Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022
  • One of the most shocking scenes, among many, was the moment in the end where your character is in a coma and Oliver rips out her breathing tube.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
  • His breathing tube was removed and he was released after nine days.
    Teddy Grant, ABC News, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Patients can get 100 percent oxygen through the nose without having to have a breathing tube put in place.
    NBC News, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The protocol in Alabama calls for an inmate to be is strapped to a gurney and fitted with a mask and a breathing tube.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The next morning, the team shared, per his physicians, that Hamlin’s breathing tube was removed, and was able to talk to his family and care team.
    Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2023
  • When the medicine wore off, some patients emerged from their coma-like state and reflexively grabbed at the breathing tube down their throats.
    Joseph Goldstein Desiree Rios, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Cox's sister, Latoya Boomer, said her brother has a breathing tube and a feeding tube.
    CNN, 29 June 2022
  • Letby agreed that the child was given an infusion of morphine around 4 a.m. and that a portable X-ray showed the breathing tube in the correct location around 6:10 a.m.
    Christina Coulter, Fox News, 26 June 2024
  • During the breathing tube placement for the procedure, bile and water went into my lungs because of the blockages in my esophagus.
    Rachel S. Hunt, Washington Post, 6 July 2024

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