How to Use digestive tract in a Sentence

digestive tract

noun

• That includes cells along the back of the throat, in the digestive tract, in the heart, in the kidneys, and even in the brain.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 1 July 2020
• The virus could enter through the mouth but grow in the digestive tract.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 8 June 2020
• Some of the body lice had Y. pestis in their digestive tracts and in their feces.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
• There are no teeth inside the digestive tract past the mouth.
  — Joe Graedonteresa Graedon, The Seattle Times, 28 Nov. 2018
• Studies need to be done to see if CWD survives the digestive tract of the wolf.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 July 2021
• As with other fruit, Ng says that the fiber in yuzu helps support the digestive tract.
  — Emily Laurence, Good Housekeeping, 4 Jan. 2023
• The butter and Frank’s Red Hot mixed to the tolerance of each digestive tract.
  — Matthew Korfhage, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2021
• This gives your meds enough time to make their way from your digestive tract to your bloodstream.
  — Christine Byrne, Mph, SELF, 26 Oct. 2023
• One idea is to cinch zip ties on the collars so that the plastic tails catch within the snake’s digestive tract.
  — Bill Kearney South Florida Sun-Sentinel (tns), al, 13 Feb. 2023
• Even a short flight can upset your pet’s digestive tract — this goes for cats as well as dogs.
  — Christine Ryan, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2020
• The colon and rectum make up the lower part of the digestive tract, or large intestine.
  — Anne Grauel, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 21 Mar. 2021
• The cause was Crohn’s disease, a disorder of the digestive tract, said his wife, Maryann Grodin.
  — Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2018
• As such, the male anglerfish barely has a digestive tract to speak of, and no instinct for the hunt.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 26 June 2018
• Red meat, for example, can take days to move through the digestive tract.
  — Julie Poole, Bon Appétit, 12 Jan. 2022
• Your gut is lined with nerves that work to expand and contract to push food through your digestive tract.
  — Marygrace Taylor, SELF, 24 Dec. 2019
• In April, 64 pounds of trash were found in the digestive tract of a juvenile sperm whale that washed ashore in southern Spain.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 5 June 2018
• But these burrows appear to have avoided the area around the digestive tract.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2023
• Grass hay, which is high in fiber, keeps your pet bunny’s digestive tract healthy.
  — Caitlin McLean, USA TODAY, 25 July 2022
• The capsule is designed to break down after three or four weeks, and will exit the body through the digestive tract.
  — Eric Cheung, CNN, 5 Dec. 2019
• The main job of your liver is filtering blood that’s flowing from your digestive tract to the rest of your body.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 20 June 2019
• Use a sharp knife to make a shallow cut lengthwise along the back of each shrimp, and devein by removing the digestive tract with the tip of the knife.
  — Odette Williams, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
• Is there something about the smell of ink and paper that triggers our digestive tracts?
  — Popular Science, 13 Feb. 2020
• Her vocal cords were paralyzed, as were some of the nerves in her digestive tract.
  — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• The rectum is the lower portion of our digestive tract.
  — Yana Tallon-Hicks, Teen Vogue, 25 Jan. 2020
• This reflex is named after the vagus nerve, which runs from your brain to your heart, lungs and digestive tract.
  — Anne R. Crecelius, The Conversation, 20 June 2019
• Blood is also high in iron, which can disrupt the digestive tract and liver.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
• When your diet is higher in calcium, less of it is absorbed in the digestive tract and less ends up in the urine.
  — Nutrition Diva Monica Reinagel, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2020
• Larger pieces of bread can also block a bird’s digestive tract.
  — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2022
• Per the authors, this is the first such study to observe the behavioral patterns and escape processes of prey within the digestive tract of predators.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2024
• While not the cause, iron deficiency can be a sign of some serious health problems, such as bleeding in the digestive tract, or even colorectal cancer, Ardehali said.
  — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024