The painters used a ventilator to keep the paint fumes from getting too strong.    From LearnThat.org. 

And I agree that starving or dehydrating or just stopping a ventilator is cruel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defending Your Existence] Reference

The best thing about a ventilator is that while it's in place, the patient can't talk.    From Wordnik.com.  [February 2005] Reference

The ventilator is a tube that runs through Dax's mouth and into his lungs to facilitate respiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Subtle Update (Music (For Robots))] Reference

To a patient whose lungs are temporarily compromised, short-term ventilator support is often the difference between life and death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacob M. Appel: The Coming Ethical Crisis: Oxygen Rationing] Reference

He has been (INAUDIBLE), he's got what's called a ventilator tube in him.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2006] Reference

Really incredible, they were never on a ventilator, which is pretty amazing considering their size.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2007] Reference

DiPonzio is now breathing on his own, but while he could go back on a ventilator, that is unlikely.    From Wordnik.com.  [13WHAM: Top Stories] Reference

The analogy of the brother who suffered brain death and was on a ventilator is a good one for this.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Thread for Terri Schiavo Discussion] Reference

Usually, a ventilator is a closed system that allows air to go in and out of the lungs but not over the vocal cords.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Orleans Saints Central] Reference

A policy of helping everyone who needs a ventilator is a policy of spending less to help the same class of people in other ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [More on Emilio] Reference

It requires a ventilator, meaning she cannot speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

Soon they are unable to breathe without a ventilator.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silent Killers] Reference

Beard gestured to Dark to look through the ventilator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference

"They finally had to turn off the ventilator," his mother recalls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Ebonie Can't Breathe] Reference

Tom pulled the ventilator grill down, and climbed up into the shaft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold in the Sky] Reference

Through the ventilator behind them came the murmur of querulous voices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference

In some cases, the patients were hospitalized and placed on a ventilator.    From Wordnik.com.  [FDA orders warning on Botox] Reference

Later, he slept in front of the television, and I turned on the ventilator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Major Chaos] Reference

The ventilator shafts yawned menacingly before them; they went in reluctantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold in the Sky] Reference

The heat was over-powering, so we rushed to the ventilator and cooled off quickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of the Empire State] Reference

He wears diapers, needs a ventilator to breathe and can have dozens of seizures a day.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Family's Breakdown] Reference

If so why should a light have been seen last night, behind the little round ventilator?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slave of Silence] Reference

In March, the hospital had its first case of ventilator-associated pneumonia in months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Case Study: A Standard Approach] Reference

Unhesitatingly the detective threw himself into the ventilator and disappeared head first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914] Reference

Johnny Coombs had been spotted disappearing into the ventilator shaft in the engine sector.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold in the Sky] Reference

Doctors kept her on a ventilator until about 5 p.m. so family and friends could say goodbye.    From Wordnik.com.  ['A Tragic Error'] Reference

As there was no window or other ventilator, and it was a warm day, I could not close the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference

McKinnell's ventilator is also a useful method of ventilation, especially of underground rooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference

The windows were all shuttered from top to bottom, each shutter having a little ventilator in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slave of Silence] Reference

Peering out of the stateroom ventilator, his eyes met a sight such as he had never witnessed before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

His suit ventilator was whining under the terrific heat and his whole body was bathed in perspiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet] Reference

Sweat poured from his forehead and the suit ventilator whined as it worked to pick up the extra moisture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet] Reference

A good-sized room is formed and a small hole in the roof, made by the warmth inside, acts as a ventilator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Sketches from Oldest America] Reference

Venmar will provide you with a free safety device that will shut off the ventilator if the motor overheats.    From Wordnik.com.  [CPSC announces Billy Goat and Venmar recalls] Reference

I have known it to nest year after year, at the Vicarage, in a hole in the wall, where an iron ventilator was broken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

The window was shuttered with iron, and a small round ventilator; high up, inside the door, was another sheet of iron.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slave of Silence] Reference

His ventilator had quieted down once he got into the darkness, but now it started whining slightly again because he was sweating profusely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet] Reference