How to Use larynx in a Sentence

larynx

noun

• To test this, the researchers attached the three whale larynxes to pipes in the lab and blew air through them.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
• In the larynxes of most mammals, the vocal cords might get in the way of a massive flow of air.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
• His lungs and larynx were plucked out, placed in an urn, and kept in Missolonghi.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• Cruse has suffered from melanoma and lost part of his larynx to cancer.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 30 June 2019
• The most common types of head and neck cancer in both groups were oral cancers and cancer of the larynx.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 8 Aug. 2024
• However, even in this case, the larynx of a large baleen whale is pretty wide.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2013
• Your throat, or pharynx, is a tube that carries air to your windpipe and larynx (known as the voice box).
  — Laura Schober, Health, 3 July 2024
• Researchers are now trying to find the locations in the brain that send faulty signals to the larynx.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• There was a tumor on his larynx, stage 3, that had almost reached his lymph nodes.
  — Usha Lee McFarling, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Tyler had fractured his larynx, and doctors had advised him to rest his voice.
  — Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 3 Aug. 2024
• Lewis even handed him a sip of water to help calm a persistent cough Jones said was caused by a torn larynx.
  — Jim Vertuno and Michael Tarm, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2022
• While both types of whales can still produce sound with their larynx, baleen whales have novel structures that do this.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2024
• The tenor and bass get moments in the spotlight, but the two women sing their larynxes off with hardly a solo line.
  — Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver, 21 Sep. 2017
• Then there's laryngopharyngeal reflux, when the stomach acid rises all the way up to the throat and larynx.
  — Korin Miller, Health.com, 10 Feb. 2022
• The larynx plays a large role in breathing, speaking, and swallowing.
  — Mark Gurarie, Health, 15 Feb. 2024
• Aerosmith have now pushed the entirety of the tour back to 2024 due to Tyler’s damaged vocal cords and fractured larynx.
  — Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 29 Sep. 2023
• Saylor ended up on the floor and suffered a fractured larynx.
  — Theresa Vargas, baltimoresun.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• About 61% of people diagnosed with cancer of the larynx will be alive five years later — a rate that drops to 16% if the cancer spreads.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 8 Aug. 2024
• The epiglottis, a valve in your larynx that controls airflow, closes.
  — Jenny Sweigard, Verywell Health, 1 July 2024
• Samsudean was found dead, her larynx crushed, in her bed at Uptown Place apartments.
  — Hal Boedeker, orlandosentinel.com, 17 July 2019
• Before Ann’s stroke, these brain regions sent signals to muscles involved in speech, like those in the larynx, lips and tongue.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Aug. 2023
• My lungs and larynx couldn’t create the air pressure and vibrations needed to say the words floating around my mind.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2018
• Owen thought that the different vocalizations stem from the anatomy of the hyoid, which supports the larynx and tongue.
  — Elisa Neckar, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2018
• These symptoms happen due to swelling that occurs around the larynx (the vocal cords), trachea (windpipe), and bronchi (bronchial tubes).
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 16 Oct. 2018
• The band made it through only three shows last fall after Tyler damaged his vocal cords and fractured his larynx, forcing the band off the road.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 2 Aug. 2024
• The first bullet came through his upper back and out near his larynx, and the second entered the right side of his head and exited through his forehead.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2023
• This first takes place in the upper respiratory tract, which includes the nose, mouth, larynx and bronchi.
  — USA Today, 14 Mar. 2020
• Singers stretch their pitches; some voices sound partially trapped in the larynx.
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2018
• Hoarseness is usually a symptom of problems in the vocal folds of your larynx, aka your voice box.
  — Korin Miller, Health.com, 4 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024