How to Use coma in a Sentence

coma

noun
  • In such cases, seizures and/or coma may be the first sign of a low.
    Jordyn Bradley, Fortune Well, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The comet has a core of dust, gas and ice surrounded by a bright cloud of gas known as a coma.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2023
  • With a coma heel and high-shine patent leather, these boots pack a unique statement.
    Nneya Richards, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Meanwhile, Norden lost his right leg above the knee and was in a coma for eight days.
    Jeff Glor, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The 87-year-old went into a coma and died five days later.
    Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2023
  • These can progress to a coma within 24 to 48 hours, according to the CDC.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The coma would be reversed once the brain was back to normal, if all of Allen’s vitals held.
    Han Ong, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
  • At the hospital, McLemore slipped into a coma, the suit states.
    Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The drug is so potent that three grains of pure fentanyl can induce a coma.
    Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 20 July 2023
  • After the surgery, Rachel remained in a coma for days in the intensive care unit.
    Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The shooting left him in a coma for seven weeks and in a wheelchair for nearly two years.
    Liz Szabo, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The shape of 12/P Pons-Brooks' coma has created the appearance of horns for on-the-ground observers.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2024
  • One of her cousin’s injuries left her in a coma and on life support, from which she was soon removed.
    Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The 28-year-old White woman spent weeks in a coma and had no memory of what happened.
    Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
  • Instead, Anya ends up in a coma, shattering the group's hopes.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Just four months after moving to LA, Hilda was in a coma — her life in the balance.
    Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2023
  • She was last seen in a coma, and some of her last conscious words implied Max may have been blinded by the monster.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Brannan said later that one of the victims was a married father of two, who was in a coma.
    Jonathan Dienst, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The health complications from that overdose put him in a coma for more than three months.
    Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Though he was rushed to the hospital and made it out of surgery, the last few minutes of the episode showed him him in a coma with a Code Blue sounding from his room.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 18 June 2023
  • The impact cracked open her skull, broke nearly every major bone in her body and left her in a coma for 36 hours.
    Emily Langer, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Nadeau would spend three weeks in a coma and doctors gave him only a 6% chance of surviving.
    Greg Engle, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Comets have a nucleus and a coma, the latter being a cloud of gas the envelopes the nucleus.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The show didn't keep us guessing for multiple episodes or put Logan in a coma.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Hutchinson was hours away from the Cleveland Clinic while her daughter was in a coma.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 14 May 2023
  • Smithers took a devastating blow to the head and his passenger, 18-year-old Lisa Hogan, was in a coma for 28 days.
    Dean Kuipers, SPIN, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Soon after, Perry went into a two-month-long coma and had to use a colostomy bag.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2023
  • As the comet approaches the sun, the ice begins to turn to gas that can burst out of the comet in a cloud of dust that creates a huge, fuzzy cloud around the nucleus called the coma.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Years later, Mark awakes from a coma in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, and well, his life didn’t turn out so great.
    Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
  • 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

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