How to Use insulin in a Sentence

insulin

noun
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  • Some insulin prices have more than tripled in the last two decades.
    — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2023
  • For the last two months, her son’s insulin has cost $35.
    — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
  • On Thursday, the House voted to cap the price of insulin at $35 a month.
    — New York Times, 3 Apr. 2022
  • The $35-a-month cap on insulin for seniors would be gone.
    — Joe Biden, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
  • That's not the case as anything that spikes the insulin response will break the fast.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Sanofi is the last of three major insulin makers in the United States to cut or cap the price of the drug.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The first time was in 1958 for his work on the structure of the insulin molecule.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Lila is poised, stylish, and wears her insulin pump with pride on the red carpet.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The key is insulin which escorts glucose into the cells of the body.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 16 Feb. 2023
  • We were sent home with vials of insulin and a binder of papers on how to keep my 7-year-old body healthy.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 17 May 2022
  • One of the forms, created by the school nurse, included the wrong insulin dosage.
    — Rebecca Griesbach | [email protected], al, 14 Sep. 2023
  • This triggers the release of insulin from the pancreas.
    — Mckale Montgomery, The Conversation, 19 May 2022
  • And of course, there will be a limit on the amount that insulin will cost for those on Medicare, a limit of $35 a month.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The most important may be the $35 monthly cap on insulin.
    — oregonlive, 23 Oct. 2022
  • When blood sugar starts to rise after a person eats, these medicines cause the body to make more insulin.
    — Angel Saunders, People.com, 9 Jan. 2025
  • About half of all states regulate the cost of insulin, but New York is the first to eliminate co-pays.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
  • With type 2 diabetes, the body doesn't use insulin well.
    — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2022
  • For some drugs, such as insulin, rebates and discounts can lower the list price by more than 80%.
    — Mariana Socal, STAT, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Without insulin, too much sugar can stay in the blood, which can lead to health problems.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 18 Nov. 2022
  • One of his aunts has Type 1 diabetes and is running out of insulin.
    — Lauren Dunn, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In turn, insulin is required to escort sugar out of the bloodstream and into the cells.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 7 July 2022
  • The male's state affects insulin levels, which in turn affects the rack or the really big arm.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
  • First, over time, the body becomes less responsive to the hormone insulin.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 21 July 2023
  • But the main thing is to take a reserve of insulin for my daughter, who has had diabetes for 5 years now.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The body either resists insulin or doesn't produce enough of it.
    — New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The device serves the same purpose as shots, pumping insulin from a cartridge through a tube and into his body.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The cap on insulin for people on Medicare takes effect next year.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Seniors would also have insulin prices capped at $35 a month.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2022
  • That prompted some drugmakers to slash the cost of insulin for a broader group of patients.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Our bodies process carbs differently from fats, for instance; a calorie from corn leads your body to secrete more insulin than a calorie from cheese.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025

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