How to Use life support in a Sentence

life support

noun
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  • She was put on life support.
  • He was removed from life support.
  • How did the tech world’s next big thing end up on life support?
    — Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The child was put on life support on May 6 and died two days later, Maj.
    — Claudia Dominguez, CNN, 21 Oct. 2022
  • That is when the decision was made to take her off life support.
    — David Begnaud, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2024
  • By this time, Angela Craig was on life support, and the outlook was grim.
    — Sarah Prior, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Box office sales of 3D movies are on life support and have been for some time.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
  • As a result, the actor was in a coma, on life support, for two weeks.
    — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The young girl was taken off life support just a few days later.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 28 July 2023
  • On Saturday, the 1-year-old boy was put on life support.
    — Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Rose played well, but after Trick One, the defense was on life support.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The mother was still on life support when the physician left two weeks later.
    — Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Foltz died three days after he was put on life support.
    — CBS News, 17 June 2022
  • The next day, Bonham said, the hospital told him the man had been taken off life support.
    — Moe Clark, ProPublica, 5 Dec. 2022
  • He was placed on life support for several days and died Jan. 16.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Saturday's loss to Notre Dame has put the Tigers' playoff hopes on life support.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Hadley was pronounced dead when she was taken off life support at about 10 that night.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2022
  • David Kiefel, 61, is well into a second month on life support.
    — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The golf establishment had hoped LIV would be on life support by now.
    — Kevin Cook, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Over the next month, the man's body was maintained on life support while the kidney's function was monitored.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Doctors said the condition triggered the brain bleed, which has left Burke on life support.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Meehan, who’d been placed on life support, died four days later at age 57.
    — Jeff Truesdell, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2024
  • But at 0-3, their playoff hopes are already on life support.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The discovery came as the sub and its five passengers would be reaching the limit of the sub's roughly 96 hours of life support.
    — Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 22 June 2023
  • Erik Cantu was shot at least four times and is on life support, his family said.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Not 2 days later, she was asked for permission to take him off life support.
    — Gloria Rebecca Gomez, The Arizona Republic, 13 June 2022
  • They’re meant for people on life support, like the thousands of Covid patients who needed a machine to breathe for them.
    — Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Jacob died this week after being taken off life support.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
  • The uncle said one child just came out of surgery and was recovering while another one was in critical condition on life support.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 25 July 2024

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