How to Use airway in a Sentence

airway

noun

• Since the voice box and the airway are at the front of the neck, a fracture can impact two parts of the body.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2021
• The moisture helps open the airways to relieve dry cough.
  — Nicole Harris, Parents, 10 July 2023
• The deputy then instructs the paramedic to put the injured man on his back and to open his airway.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 29 Aug. 2022
• Coughing is your body's way of trying to keep the airways clear.
  — Korin Miller, Health, 28 Nov. 2023
• The best way to do that is to keep the head and shoulders aligned which keeps the airway as open as possible.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 24 May 2022
• Make sure there's nothing in the person's mouth or cheek that would block their airway.
  — Sarah Fielding, Health.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• These restraints restrict the airway or blood flow to the brain when pressure is applied to the neck.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2021
• This one, however, seems to like the airway above the lungs, including the throat.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 4 Feb. 2022
• The airway went silent, the body relaxed and there was something in the next moments that felt to him almost like peace.
  — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff Eli Saslow, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• But deep in the airway, T cells may provide a second line of defense.
  — Carl Zimmer, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2021
• To prevent this, your jaw may grind back and forth to keep the airway open, which can result in restless sleep.
  — Kirbie Johnson, Allure, 24 Aug. 2021
• Or worse, in the most severe cases, there can be swelling of the throat blocking the airway completely.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 20 July 2023
• The toxins damage the cilia and cause the upper airways to swell, according to the CDC.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2024
• The surgery opens a direct path through the neck and into the airway so that doctors can insert a breathing tube.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2021
• When that didn’t work, firefighters used a scope to find a grape stuck in the child’s airway, Wagner said.
  — Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 23 Aug. 2022
• Herbal Products Some herbal products can help clear phlegm out of your airways.
  — Amanda Gardner, Health, 3 Sep. 2023
• His mouthpiece forces his tongue to the roof of his mouth and aligns his jaw, which helps open the airway for non-obstructed breathing.
  — Katie Dupere, Men's Health, 11 July 2022
• This method is often used for babies with a blocked airway or a large tumor at birth.
  — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
• Bronchitis occurs when the airways in the lungs, which are known as the bronchial tubes, become inflamed.
  — Phoebe Natanson, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2023
• Whereas the larynx resides at the top of the main airway, the syrinx sits at the bottom, where the trachea (aka the windpipe) branches out to the lungs.
  — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
• That prompted the airway physician, the emergency physician that was out on the field, to be at his bedside in less than a minute.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2023
• Their tiny airways can become inflamed, and the sickest ones struggle to breathe.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2023
• This helps keep their airway open when moving large amounts of air through their massive bodies and not choke.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2024
• Some of the babies slumped down on the pillows or arched backward off of them, constricting their airways.
  — Suzy Khimm, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2023
• Slicing through the tether could cause the tongue to fall back into the throat, obstructing the airway during sleep.
  — Christina Szalinski, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2021
• The adrenaline hormone floods the bloodstream and is rapidly dispersed to all parts of the body, such as the eyes, heart, blood vessels and airway.
  — Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2023
• On a monitor next to the treadmill, Dr. Olin and his team can see whether the airway is narrowing at the level of the vocal cords.
  — Laura Landro, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2021
• The flow of air keeps the upper airway passages open, which prevents the brain from having to awaken one's body during sleep.
  — USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
• Her younger son has since been diagnosed with asthma and needs to use an inhaler twice a day to keep his airways open.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
• Ozone, which can irritate the airways, is degraded by smog, which is more common in cities.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024