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
Swallowing is extremely painful, the pain shooting up to the ears, and the patient has difficulty in taking nourishment.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
How did it get its life—its property of taking nourishment, of growing and of giving birth to other creatures like itself?
From Creation and Its Records by Baden-Powell, Baden Henry
