How to Use lung in a Sentence

lung

noun

• He filled his lungs with the clean. fresh air.
• The fatal round entered his right hip and ripped through his liver, lung and heart.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• Carbon dioxide was building up in her lungs, and doctors cautioned the end could be near.
  — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• Radon is a risk factor for the development of lung cancer.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 15 Mar. 2023
• Its nerve fibers follow this network of blood vessels throughout your body to reach vital organs, from the heart and lungs to the gut.
  — R. Douglas Fields, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
• Over that first week, doctors monitored Elayna’s brain for bleeding and poured a protein into her breathing tube to help her lungs open and close.
  — Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2023
• Exposure to wildfire smoke increases the risk of stroke, heart and respiratory diseases, lung cancer and early death.
  — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 13 Sep. 2024
• Singh, the county’s expert, testified the scan showed the fluid around her lungs had diminished and that blood was no longer freely flowing through the second channel that had formed in the aorta’s lining.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• Willett died of pancreatic cancer in 2007, and Triola died of lung cancer two years later.
  — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2023
• Tobacco use is associated with 17 different types of cancer in addition to lung cancer.
  — Cathy J. Bradley, The Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2024
• The right lung is on the left side and the left lung is on the right side.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2023
• Others can cause burns to the skin, eyes, throat, nose, and lungs.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2023
• In 2015, she was forced to drop out of Dancing with the Stars due to blood clots in both of her lungs.
  — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
• Blake Treinen is also on the IL because of a bruised lung.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• The impact had broken their ribs and burst their lungs.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2024
• Harmonies sung at the top of my lungs in the backseat of my parents’ car.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
• The cause was lung cancer that metastasized to the brain, said his son, Michael Austin.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• Reyes was shot multiple times in an arm, his back and a lung.
  — NBC news, 7 May 2023
• In the hospital, doctors drained two and a half liters of fluid from the wall of his lungs.
  — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2023
• After surgery to remove part of the damaged lung, the pup spent six nerve-wracking days in the ICU.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2023
• Goldman, 25, had stab wounds to his throat, lungs and abdomen.
  — Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• Key Takeaways Running in extreme cold is hard on the heart and lungs.
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 23 Jan. 2024
• In the early 1950s, King George VI’s lung cancer was kept out of the public domain.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
• In rare cases, the infection can spread outside the lungs to places such as the skin, bones, brain and spinal cord.
  — Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN, 1 May 2023
• First Class Heath Robinson, who died of lung cancer at 39.
  — Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• She was stabbed with an ice pick, with fatal wounds to her heart and lungs, which were determined to be the cause of death.
  — Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 21 May 2024
• In the clip, Luna and her mom snuggled up on the couch to watch the video, when Luna suddenly screeched at the top of her lungs.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2024
• Brosso had suffered a fatal stab wound to her back that pierced her lung and aorta.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
• But Delfi appears to be the first to focus first on lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death.
  — Matthew Herper Reprints, STAT, 9 Oct. 2023
• All Gosling can eke out is a small grunt/sigh that will basically knock the air right out of your lungs.
  — Meredith Woerner, Variety, 4 May 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024