Example Sentences

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Desperate to save them, records show, doctors inserted tubes into their airways and hooked them up to IVs.

From Salon • May 7, 2026

On Saturdays, a Sacramento clinic repurposes the reclining chairs reserved for patients recovering from abortion procedures for the people coming in for the IVs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

"We were told that his illness was one in a million. Other parents were learning to change diapers but I was learning how to change chemotherapy ports and IVs."

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2025

“Commonness didn’t cancel wonder,” writes Greenwell, whose fictional version of personal experience proves wondrous in its attention to recovery, from IVs and gurneys, on to caregivers and lovers.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024

I’ve seen August after his surgeries: his little face bandaged up and swollen, his tiny body full of IVs and tubes to keep him alive.

From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio