How do you use dehydration in a sentence?

Answer 1

The word "dehydration" is a noun, a word for the process of removing water from something; the condition of have been deprived of water; a word for a thing.

A noun functions as the subject of a sentence or a clause, and as the object of a verb or a preposition.

Example uses:

Dehydration caused the runner to collapse. (subject of the sentence)

It's a condition that chronic dehydration causes. (subject of the relative clause)

You risk dehydration if you don't carry water when hiking. (direct object of the verb "risk")

The hikers were suffering from dehydration when they were finally picked up by park rangers. (object of the preposition "from")