How to Use life-support system in a Sentence

life-support system

noun

• Above the hatch is a backpack with life-support systems.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2023
• The life-support system temporarily replaces the function of the heart and lungs.
  — oregonlive, 9 July 2020
• First of all, simply because the ocean is our planet's main life-support system.
  — Nell Lewis, CNN, 3 May 2021
• Yet it could be argued the GT R is merely an engine mount life-support system.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
• The crew will stay in orbit for three months, during which the life-support system and maintenance will be tested.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 19 Nov. 2021
• The life-support system that Gatens spent nearly a decade working on would never be used for Freedom.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020
• And there would likely need to be some sort of redundancy, meaning if one part of the life-support system failed, a backup would kick in.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2022
• But in this amusing, pointed romp, Grandad Claxon is little more than a tuft of hair in a high-tech wheelchair, a rolling life-support system that bleeps and hisses and leaks.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• But now actor Mark Ruffalo is on a mission to preserve the church and save its place as a life-support system for the community.
  — Jada Clarke, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
• Getting him out damages a life-support system, and the ensuing issues cause a moral conundrum about who lives and who dies.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2021
• Though the museum has generators to power life-support systems for its fish and wildlife, the power never went out.
  — Chabeli Herrera, Andres Viglucci, Carli Teproff and Michelle Kaufman, miamiherald, 13 Sep. 2017
• Dive protocols required that Vescovo check in with the surface every fifteen minutes and announce his depth and heading and the status of his life-support system.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 10 May 2020
• The power grid is modern society’s life-support system.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2021
• First introduced in Spider-Man comics in the 1980s, Madame Web is a blind clairvoyant woman who lived in a complex life-support system resembling a spider web.
  — Kevin Slane, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022
• Anyone who dares to venture past our world’s upper atmosphere will die painfully without a life-support system.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2020
• Dad is his final days, hooked up to a life-support system in the living room and being cared for by a longtime housekeeper (Kimberly Guerrero) and a friendly hospice worker (Gilbert Owuor).
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2022
• The utter lack of climate and lower gravity means the two worlds require vastly different life-support system designs.
  — Neel V. Patel, Slate Magazine, 14 Dec. 2017
• And for the first time ever, some of the components in an astronaut life-support system will be designed by artificial intelligence.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 29 June 2020
• The entire interior of the vehicle emulates the real spacecraft, complete with flight software and a life-support system.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 2018
• While the small spacecraft in which astronauts fly today carry food and oxygen as consumables and use a simply chemical method to remove carbon dioxide from the air, this type of life-support system will not swing on a colony.
  — David Warmflash, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2014
• Doctors at the Liverpool hospital where Alfie is being treated switched off his life-support systems on Monday.
  — Eli Meixler, Time, 25 Apr. 2018
• The crew needs to make sure all life-support systems are running smoothly and interactions with onboard automation systems are going well.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2023
• Spacecraft and samples from the Apollo missions have shown that the moon has potentially massive amounts of water frozen as hard as granite in deposits deep at its poles, which future astronauts could mine for their life-support systems.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2020
• In the Marvel comics, Madame Web is a clairvoyant mutant with powerful psychic abilities who lives in a complex life-support system resembling a spider web.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2022
• The life-support system, instrumentation, and ejection seat were also located in the cabin, according to NASA.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2022
• Altogether, Seedhouse estimates a suit replete with a propulsion system, a fully redundant life-support system, and heat shield could weigh as much as 500 pounds.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2022
• Buildings and communities function as life-support systems.
  — William McDonough, Scientific American, 1 July 2017
• In the latest incident, the Russian space agency Roscosmos reported cosmonauts had repaired their oxygen generator – a key life-support system in the Zvezda module.
  — NBC News, 2 Nov. 2020
• Three Chinese astronauts returned in September from a successful 90-day visit to the station, spending their time checking Tianhe’s life-support system, going on spacewalks and deploying the module’s robotic arm.
  — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2021
• Coogan was trained in technical skills including spacecraft systems, flight engineering, robotics and life-support systems.
  — Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 22 May 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024