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
  • 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
  • The biggest question, however, is how long will the oxygen last?
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, 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
  • The ozone layer is a thin blanket in the stratosphere made of molecules with three oxygen atoms.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • 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
  • This shape allows oxygen to reach more of the wine for better aeration.
    Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 11 May 2023
  • All the cats survived, but some had to be given oxygen for smoke inhalation.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2024
  • One in particular was a very old oxygen bottle that had a year stamped on it, 1933.
    Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Severe cases can result in difficulty breathing, wheezing, and signs of hypoxia (low oxygen in the tissues).
    Kashif J. Piracha, Verywell Health, 31 Oct. 2024

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