How to Use inhaler in a Sentence

inhaler

noun
  • My son Sawyer woke up with a cough and reached for his inhaler.
    Karina Bland, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2020
  • There are two sizes for an inhaler – 8.5 grams and 18 grams.
    Diane Omdahl, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • Yards away, Stratton held her inhaler to her mouth and breathed in.
    Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Why does an inhaler that costs $7 in France cost almost $500 in the United States?
    Dick Durbin and Lina M. Khan, STAT, 2 July 2024
  • So, the two new trials sought to test out the effectiveness of the three-drug inhaler.
    chicagotribune.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Inhalers can help treat the symptoms of black lung, and oxygen can help the miners breathe.
    Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 16 May 2017
  • Don’t swap your inhaler for yoga pants just yet, though.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2017
  • Don’t swap your inhaler for yoga pants just yet, though.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2017
  • Albuterol, the drug used in asthma inhalers, is scarce.
    Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Great athletes, like Jayson Tatum, still need an inhaler.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2021
  • He hasn’t been offered an inhaler in detention, the suit states.
    cleveland, 25 Apr. 2020
  • The company found that more than half of its Scope 3 footprint last year came from the use of its metered dose inhalers.
    Cecilia Butini, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Could the next big coronavirus treatment breakthrough come in the form of an inhaler or a nasal spray instead of a shot or a pill?
    IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2020
  • With so much black mold around, her son started needing an inhaler.
    Sophie Kasakove, ProPublica, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Meanwhile, forward Jayson Tatum still takes an inhaler on the court just before tipoff.
    BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2021
  • The main inhaler has a 9.25-inch-wide cleaning path, though the device also comes with a 5-foot hose equipped to clean both shag carpets and wood floors.
    Billy Cadden, Popular Science, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Beside her, Duffins takes a hit off his asthma inhaler.
    Karina Bland, azcentral, 21 Nov. 2017
  • Shari Duncan is trying to avoid her mom’s fate – dying with her inhaler in her hand.
    Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 4 Feb. 2021
  • In videos of the concert shared on social media, Eilish is heard asking her team to fetch the fan an inhaler.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2022
  • At the moment, albuterol inhalers aren’t in short supply and may never be.
    Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 8 Mar. 2023
  • An asthmatic boy without an inhaler was wheezing in the acrid smoke from brush and trash fires, which had been lit for warmth.
    Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • This is how medicines like asthma inhalers are able to penetrate into the lungs.
    Cheryl Wischhover, Vox, 24 Oct. 2018
  • The team scrounged up medicine from its dwindling supplies: a steroid, the last inhaler, a recently expired EpiPen.
    Margot Armbruster, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 July 2020
  • He was given several tests to check his heart and lungs, prescribed an inhaler and sent home.
    Dallas News, 31 May 2020
  • Unlike the Zenomics patch, the Afrezza inhaler can’t test your glucose levels.
    Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 8 July 2018
  • The girl relies on the government program to get Albuterol, the drug that goes into inhalers.
    Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 5 Sep. 2019
  • His longest wait was for his inhaler prescription to be filled.
    Dallas News, 31 May 2020
  • Always have your quick relief inhaler and spacer with you.
    Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2024
  • This is a major win for the millions of Americans with asthma who rely on inhalers to breathe.
    Dick Durbin and Lina M. Khan, STAT, 2 July 2024

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