How to Use respirator in a Sentence

respirator

noun

• With the body gone, McGuire is able to swap the heavy respirator for an N95 mask.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2020
• Those masks will have to cover the nose and mouth, and may not have a valve or respirator.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2021
• The respirator got her through the worst of the pneumonia.
  — Maria Kefalas, STAT, 22 Dec. 2023
• In the face of omicron, respirator masks have emerged as the gold standard.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, SELF, 20 Jan. 2022
• There are a range of respirators that are a step up from the basic N95 filter.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2019
• Kylie received about five pints of blood and was put on a respirator.
  — Washington Post, 17 July 2019
• If the index is higher than 500, the use of the respirators is required.
  — Camille Von Kaenel, The Mercury News, 22 July 2019
• One of them spent more than two weeks in the hospital on a respirator.
  — NBC News, 12 Apr. 2021
• Campbell was in a coma for over six weeks and had to breathe through a respirator.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
• For the past year, nothing has been in as short a supply and as high demand as the N95 respirator mask.
  — Keri Enriquez and Kaitlan Collins, CNN, 5 Mar. 2021
• Now, the cost for each respirator is between $3 and $5.
  — NBC News, 11 June 2020
• Boudreaux and hundreds of other paramedics wore respirator masks and two pairs of gloves to try to keep the virus away from their bodies.
  — Juliet Linderman and Claire Galofaro, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2021
• But your best bet is to wear an N95 respirator, which pinches around your nose and has ear loops or head straps that hold the mask tight to your face.
  — Wire Reports, oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2022
• The respirator, which was finalized in 1972, has yet to be one-upped.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 28 May 2020
• Her filing said she was given a dust mask in lieu of the proper kind of respirator.
  — Josh Eidelson, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2022
• Determined to help his squad, Sam hurled his body on the steel door with so much force, that his respirator shield cracked.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
• But a proportion of them are very ill and are on respirators.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2020
• The first passenger to reach the baggage claim wore a respirator mask.
  — The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
• The 33-year-old said the Nationals still haven’t received the respirator masks they were told were coming.
  — Bernie Wilson, The Denver Post, 5 July 2020
• The only kind of mask that will help in this situation are respirator masks such as the N95 or K95, says Mann.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 8 June 2023
• Your respirator should create a tight seal on your face, without gaps that let in air.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 20 Apr. 2022
• To test the latter, physicians are to turn off the respirator for three minutes to see if the patient attempts to breathe on his own (the apnea test).
  — Dick Teresi, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2012
• No markings at all on the filtering piece of the respirator.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 20 Jan. 2022
• So her face is obscured by a heavy-duty respirator with big, pink filters, two bright spots in the dim light.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2020
• But across the world, N95 masks are in short supply, as they're considered the gold standard of respirator masks.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 1 Apr. 2020
• Put on a disposable respirator and gloves, and walk in.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• On some days in June and July the smoke in Fairbanks was so thick that my neighbor, who has asthma, had to wear a respirator mask.
  — Nancy Fresco, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2019
• Many health care workers have had to reuse N95 respirator masks over and over again.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 5 Dec. 2020
• The method involves placing a respirator gas mask over the inmate's face to replace breathable air with pure nitrogen gas, causing death by lack of oxygen.
  — CBS News, 26 Sep. 2024
• For those tackling cleaning their homes without professional help, the CDC recommends wearing an N95 respirator, gloves, and eye protection.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Jan 2025