How to Use respiration in a Sentence

respiration

noun

• The doctor checked his heartbeat and respiration.
• His blood pressure went through the roof, his respirations were heavy and fast.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2020
• Fentanyl kills by shutting down the part of the brain that controls respiration.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2021
• The Vívosmart 5 can track heart rate, blood oxygen levels, stress, and respiration rates throughout the day and night.
  — Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2022
• Young people and athletes tend to have stronger hearts and can survive longer with low respiration rates.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
• The Vivoactive 4 can record your heart rate, sleep data, blood oxygen, and respiration, and it can all be synced to Garmin's Connect app.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2022
• And the pneumograph, a device that measures the force of respiration.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2018
• Chartis is used to screen out patients who have this end-run respiration.
  — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 22 May 2018
• There seemed to be no getting around the fact that the drugs used to control shivering also stop respiration.
  — Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2022
• Now fatal opioid overdoses, which can slow respiration to the point that the brain is starved of oxygen, are a growing part of that list.
  — Ted Alcorn, Vox, 24 Sep. 2018
• When a brain goes without oxygen for too long, the part of the brain that helps with respiration can stop working and prevent a person from breathing.
  — Pete Muntean, CNN, 6 June 2023
• During respiration, the hyoid is what keeps the airway open.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2019
• But root respiration tends to track growth, giving a snapshot.
  — Arkansas Online, 6 July 2021
• The team was able to use its biofilm to power a small LCD screen and sensors measuring strain, pulse, respiration, and glucose, although not all at once.
  — Miriam Fauzia, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2022
• Signs of heat stress include open-mouth breathing, drooling and more rapid respiration.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2019
• Eldridge questioned Moseng as to whether Floyd was alert, able to walk, obeyed commands, and whether his respiration and pulse rates were normal, which Moseng wrote in his health report.
  — NBC News, 13 Apr. 2021
• The team also found damage to the medulla, which controls respiration and movement.
  — Sharon Guynup, Science, 29 Dec. 2021
• From a technical perspective, the robot will need to adapt to a human’s rhythms of respiration.
  — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
• Researchers have found that iron and aluminum on fish gills hinder respiration.
  — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
• Life-forms here would need to have evolved without the need for oxygen—and human-like visitors would need some type of space suit for protection and respiration.
  — WIRED, 3 Feb. 2023
• Squids do not have blowholes but do have siphons, which look similar and are involved in the animal's respiration process.
  — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
• The scraps that remain are discarded as part of respiration, in the outgoing carbon dioxide, or in urine.
  — David Prologo, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2018
• In fruits and vegetables, oxygen is produced at high respiration rates, which means a shorter shelf life.
  — Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2021
• Your neck, shoulders, and chest muscles, along with other secondary respiration muscles, do the work to get the air in and out instead of your diaphragm and other core muscles.
  — Sivan Fagan, SELF, 27 Oct. 2022
• Last year brought overnight respiration tracking as part of watchOS 8, and now the next generation of its smartwatch OS can monitor your sleep stages.
  — PCMAG, 12 July 2022
• For example, emotional stress can lead to an increase in your heart rate and respiration.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 18 Apr. 2023
• This process drives your body into anaerobic respiration and can push your heart to 90 percent of its maximal heart rate.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2022
• What the researchers and doctors at Mount Sinai hadn’t realized was that even mild cases might be affecting respiration after the acute phase of the disease.
  — Meghan O'Rourke, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2021
• Moseng acknowledged that Floyd was alert, obeying commands, and his respiration and pulse rates were normal.
  — Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
• Hold for three breaths, using your respiration to facilitate the twist.
  — Dana Santas, CNN, 12 May 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024