How to Use diaphragm in a Sentence

diaphragm

noun

• The diaphragm contracts, as do muscles in the chest and abdomen, and the vocal cords close to build pressure in the lungs.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2024
• Belly breathing is one technique that involves taking deep breaths that fully engage your diaphragm, a muscle below the lungs that’s involved in breathing.
  — Alexandria Jones-Patten, Phd, Health, 14 Aug. 2024
• Many nerves link the base of the brain through the ear canal, the jaw, and down to the diaphragm.
  — Cathie Ericson, Health, 23 May 2024
• To do so, brace your diaphragm and take a nice, deep breath.
  — Jillian Mock, Popular Science, 17 Dec. 2020
• Bethany Birch had pain in her diaphragm on and off for eight months in 2016.
  — Bram Sable-Smith, CBS News, 27 June 2023
• The two bullets in his back tore through his diaphragm and lodged in his spine.
  — Emily Wilder, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2021
• The pressure from your breath is sent back up to your diaphragm and lungs, and then out of your body.
  — Sivan Fagan, SELF, 27 Oct. 2022
• The round ripped through her liver, diaphragm, heart and left lung.
  — Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 12 Apr. 2018
• The tear appeared to be at the lower left end of the esophagus, just above the diaphragm.
  — Douglas G. Adler, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2021
• The drivers have a new custom diaphragm made from polyurethane (PU) and graphene.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• The spring inside the spring brake chamber may allow the pressure plate to shift and wear a hole through the diaphragm.
  — Detroit Free Press, 16 Apr. 2021
• The third step is the forceful contraction of the muscles of the chest cage, abdomen, and diaphragm.
  — Howard Lewine, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• Inhale three quick breaths through your nose and fill your diaphragm with air.
  — Nick Owchar, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
• Vranich says that the most optimal breaths start in your diaphragm, rather than in your chest.
  — Kara McGrath, Allure, 3 Dec. 2020
• The crash broke his neck, ruptured his diaphragm and shredded his spleen.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
• Two keys to using the mouth call: Don’t simply blow across the reeds, but huff air up from deep in your diaphragm.
  — Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 20 Apr. 2020
• The tumor has reached the wall of the chest, the inner lining of the chest wall, the diaphragm, or the nerve that controls the diaphragm, among other places.
  — Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 22 Apr. 2023
• The leg muscles are the most common sites of polio damage, along with the muscles of the head, neck, and diaphragm.
  — Alexander B. Joy, The Atlantic, 28 July 2019
• The new machines sense the diaphragm’s spasms that signal the desire to breathe, and the breath’s timing and volume, and can match both to a tee.
  — Jamieson Webster, The New York Review of Books, 2 Apr. 2021
• To acquaint you with the function of your diaphragm, place your hands on your lower ribs.
  — Dana Santas, CNN, 23 June 2021
• Remember to breathe from your diaphragm and not your chest.
  — Philly.com, 11 July 2017
• Warm up those vocal chords, and don't forget to use your diaphragm.
  — Kendall Trammell, CNN, 25 Nov. 2020
• That means relaxing the diaphragm to allow the lungs to fill more fully.
  — K. Aleisha Fetters, SELF, 9 Dec. 2017
• That, Seifi says, tricks the diaphragm into setting aside the hiccups.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2021
• Her post-verbal texts are made of glottal stops and hisses, tongue clicks and tones pushed out from the diaphragm.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 14 May 2018
• Normally when the diaphragm does this, air rushes in and fills our lungs.
  — Sam Kean, Slate Magazine, 24 July 2017
• She was left with holes in her stomach and diaphragm, and part of her pancreas was removed.
  — Jay Croft, CNN, 2 June 2023
• Most hunters, if allowed to take only one call into the woods, would choose a diaphragm mouth call.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 4 May 2020
• That man inspired me all my life to get my voice crisper, get my diaphragm harder, use less air and just spit it out.
  — Bill Friskics-Warren, New York Times, 27 May 2017
• And a dangerous one: Patients with M.G. can lose strength in the muscles of the throat and the diaphragm and become too fatigued to take a breath.
  — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024