How to Use oxygen in a Sentence

oxygen

noun

• The loud hum of his oxygen machine echoed through the courtroom.
  — Steve Karnowski, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024
• There’s very rarely much oxygen for other events in the city to breathe.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2024
• Some of the oxygen might stay in the ice or escape into the atmosphere.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
• The oxygen in the submersible was set to run out on Thursday morning.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 22 June 2023
• Oxygen masks fell in front of some people who had hit their heads on the right part of the oxygen bin.
  — Jason Hahn, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2023
• When the prosecutors showed that photo in the courtroom, the oxygen left the room.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2023
• His life hadn’t been easy either, and his sadness was with him like the oxygen in his blood.
  — Trey Burnette, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• The flurry of transactions sucked up all the oxygen around here.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 1 May 2023
• The part of the heart that receives blood from that artery experiences a lack of oxygen.
  — Vanessa Caceres, Verywell Health, 11 Sep. 2024
• The race for the White House is sucking up all the oxygen, to echo an old political cliche.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
• Food is often cut off from oxygen when it's piled up in a landfill.
  — London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Nov. 2024
• His eyes went wide with fear at the prospect of not having oxygen, even if only for a moment.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2024
• Often, shipwrecks remain well preserved due to the lack of oxygen at the bottom of the ocean.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 26 June 2024
• The food is freeze-dried to pull out all its moisture, then stored in a mylar pouch with an oxygen absorber.
  — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2023
• And both teams have less than two weeks before the Bears start training camp and suck up all the oxygen on talk radio and in the media.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2023
• Low levels of oxygen in the blood can also cause morning headaches.
  — Sherry Christiansen Updated, Verywell Health, 5 Nov. 2023
• Because of this, muscles in your legs don’t get enough blood and oxygen even while resting.
  — Francisco J. Rivera Rosario, Health, 22 Feb. 2024
• The major arteries that supply the heart with blood and oxygen get plugged up with a clot, causing a block in flow.
  — Christopher Desimone, M.d., Ph.d. Mayo Foundation For Medical Education and Research, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
• The more blood circulation, the more oxygen-rich blood is pumped to muscles.
  — Leslie Hsu Oh, Travel + Leisure, 27 Jan. 2023
• Soak the garment in hot water and powdered oxygen bleach.
  — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2024
• When the door opened, the room re-flooded with oxygen, very quickly causing a backdraft-like event.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2024
• The biggest question, however, is how long will the oxygen last?
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 21 June 2023
• With a ticking clock, the diver's colleagues race against time to save him before his oxygen runs out.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• As the tide moves in and out, the fish face changing temperatures and oxygen levels.
  — Samuel Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
• When there's minimal to no oxygen, the spores can flourish.
  — Lauren David, Southern Living, 26 Nov. 2024
• The ozone layer is a thin blanket in the stratosphere made of molecules with three oxygen atoms.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
• When someone’s heart stops, so does the circulation of oxygen-rich blood to the far reaches of their body.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2023
• The heart and the kidneys can become deprived of blood and oxygen, leading to kidney failure.
  — Noah Weiland, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• That’s horrendous for creatures in the deep who need the oxygen the AMOC delivers to survive.
  — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 25 July 2024
• Doctors said the confusion was possibly from the block of oxygen to his brain.
  — Patricia A Gonzalez Portillo, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024