ventilator
noun
a person or thing that ventilates.
ventilators
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pluralof ventilator.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It's a mammoth task: The vast majority of the city's 20,500 licensed food carts -- selling pretzels, peanuts and ice cream -- rely on generators to power stoves, freezers and ventilators.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Does she wonder how the people hospitalized on ventilators or who lost loved ones feel?
From Salon ● May 11, 2026
He said the ventilators had been provided during the Covid pandemic, but because of compatibility problems had never been used.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
GM and Ford teamed up with medical-device makers to churn out tens of thousands of ventilators during the early days of the pandemic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Human beings in there were excreting into steel helmets which were passed to the people at the ventilators, who dumped them.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
