taking nourishment
Example Sentences
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While the condition condemned victims to a lifetime of drooling and taking nourishment through an implanted tube into the stomach, his paper in the journal Surgery was virtually ignored in America.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2016
His husband, Jeff Woodman, said that Mr. Bernhardt had been in declining health and had stopped taking nourishment after breaking his arm in a recent fall.
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2015
Within three days they were taking nourishment normally, and since then have gained steadily in weight�the boy even more rapidly than the girl.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other grubs bite at once into a soft bread which surrounds them on every side; this one, on leaving the egg, has to make a breach in a wall before taking nourishment.
From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
We might as well eat sawdust and deceive ourselves with thinking that we are taking nourishment.
From How to Study by Swain, George Fillmore
