How to Use aspirate in a Sentence

aspirate

verb

• The letter “h” in “house” is aspirated, but the “h” in “hour” is not.
• She began coughing when she aspirated some orange juice.
• Instead Buck wanted to slam him with meth: put the needle in his arm, aspirate the vein and shoot the dose.
  — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2020
• Doctors can use saline to aspirate fluid from the nose with a catheter instead.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 21 Mar. 2020
• So to reach the ovaries, scientists need to use a special tool with an ultrasound probe and needle at the end to aspirate the egg cells.
  — Alessandra Potenza, The Verge, 6 Apr. 2018
• The hand surgeon may elect to aspirate the fluid from the cyst, which usually is effective.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2022
• Her nephew Daniel choked and aspirated from bottle feeding at 6 months old.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2023
• The bird may have aspirated water from the nearby Potomac.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• If the breast imaging reveals your lump is fluid-filled and therefore a cyst, the doctor may choose to aspirate it, which involves sticking a needle in the cyst to drain the fluid.
  — Jenny McCoy, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2020
• Charles held his wife and helped aspirate her between compressions.
  — Dallas News, 6 May 2022
• Bacteria first make a home in the mouth and then can be aspirated, or inhaled, into the lungs to cause serious infections.
  — Frank Scannapieco, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2019
• Redman then began to aspirate and passed out, losing control of the vehicle and crashing.
  — Tony Rizzo, kansascity, 20 Mar. 2018
• Solid food could lead him to aspirate into his lungs and risk a life-threatening infection.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2019
• When the pipette is brand new, aspirating 5 microliters of blood might require the little motor that activates the pipette’s pump to rotate by a certain amount.
  — John Carreyrou, WIRED, 21 May 2018
• All that protects us from aspirating is a thin, cartilaginous flap of tissue called the epiglottis.
  — Douglas Jacobs, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
• Avoid the towing package or opt for the base naturally aspirated four-cylinder engine and that figure falls to 2000 pounds.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 21 July 2023
• The person is also more likely to aspirate food or bacteria into their lungs, which can lead to pneumonia.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
• Falling and aspirating food and getting pneumonia — all these subtle ways that get you.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2023
• Our people are not dying from a foreign war on foreign soil, but aspirating surrounded by strange faces in hospital rooms down the street.
  — Chastity Pratt, Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2020
• For instance, many children have trouble swallowing, which leads them to aspirate, which can lead to pneumonia.
  — Washington Post, 7 June 2018
• Even patients who are NPO will continue to aspirate if their dysphagia is severe enough.
  — Douglas Jacobs, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
• Oh, and listen for the 9000-rpm, naturally aspirated flat-six.
  — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 28 Mar. 2018
• As one doctor describes it on her blog, drowning happens when someone aspirates, which is the technical term for something passing the trachea into the lungs.
  — Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, Fox News, 14 July 2017
• All Actys share naturally aspirated gasoline engines, which are mounted just in front of the rear wheels underneath the rear floor.
  — Devin Holody, Ars Technica, 26 Apr. 2018
• The Mayo Clinic recommends breathing through your mouth and avoiding forceful inhales so that your don't lodge the object further up or aspirate it into your airway.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 7 July 2021
• Those two moves dealt with a problem called dead volume, and essentially making the cups smaller made the needle that went in the blood and aspirated the blood closer to the bottom, and diluting the blood created more volume.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 3 June 2018
• Her son, Max, had overdosed on opioids, aspirated vomit and fallen into a coma.
  — Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
• Two days later, Reid and his wife were called to Curran’s room, where Curran lay unconscious, probably after aspirating on his own vomit.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 15 July 2019
• In all of these scenarios, people frequently vomit and aspirate, bringing fluid into the lungs.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 16 Oct. 2020
• The test car was powered by a normally aspirated, 161-horsepower, 2-liter engine that was buttoned to a six-speed automatic gearbox.
  — Al Haas, Philly.com, 23 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024