How to Use respiratory system in a Sentence

respiratory system

noun

• As though the nose were somehow not a part of the respiratory system.
  — Matt Bean, Sunset Magazine, 18 June 2020
• Adding this to a virus that attacks the respiratory system could then make things a lot worse.
  — Lindsay Weinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2020
• The virus, which attacks the body’s respiratory system and can lead to death, has brought much of the world to a halt since it first was detected in the closing weeks of 2019.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 2 Apr. 2020
• Some people can no longer even be in the same room as a pet without their respiratory system sounding the alarm.
  — Christiane Gelitz, Scientific American, 4 May 2023
• Ethyl hexyl acrylate: A compound that can pose dangers to the skin, eyes, and respiratory system.
  — Quartz, 21 Feb. 2023
• Officials at the news conference said the latest lab test showed there was no trace of the virus in the patient's respiratory system.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 3 Feb. 2020
• In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, healthcare providers’ concerns centered on what the virus could do the respiratory system.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 9 Apr. 2021
• How, in fact, does the pandemic virus that has so changed the world cross over into the brain after entering the respiratory system?
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 20 July 2022
• The dinosaur had a complex respiratory system and the air sacs connected to its lungs.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022
• Both are known to be harmful to our respiratory systems.
  — Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2020
• The air on that beach, the resident said, felt as if there was pepper in it and was irritating their respiratory system.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2023
• Those small bits of fluid from the respiratory system can hitch a ride on exhaled air during breathing, speaking and singing.
  — Calli McMurray, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2022
• The respiratory system and the heart are focal points of the response, Glembotski said.
  — Stephanie Innes, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2020
• By the time the vaccines rolled out, Clerge and her family worried the shot might harm her already fragile respiratory system.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2021
• These tests were designed and clinically validated using swabs of the nose and not other parts of the respiratory system, such as the mouth or the throat.
  — Matthew Binnicker, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• Amid all the working parts of the human body, the respiratory system administers some of the most important functions that keep us alive.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
• Bear mace is a strong irritant to a person’s eyes and respiratory system.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 18 July 2021
• Because the pressure wants to equalize across the respiratory system and the atmosphere, those changes indirectly force air into and out of the lungs.
  — Time, 7 Apr. 2020
• When they are inhaled, ultra-fine particles aren’t stopped in the upper part — the nose — of the human respiratory system, Perraud said.
  — Lilly Nguyen, Daily Pilot, 22 Aug. 2019
• For many people, the ability to breathe has become a primary concern in a world gripped by a virus that wreaks havoc on the respiratory system.
  — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 22 Oct. 2020
• But a lot of small practices are not, and just walking in, particularly with respiratory systems, is not a good idea for you, for other patients, or for the staff.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2020
• Too much blood got squeezed back into her tiny lungs with each heartbeat, straining her respiratory system.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 13 Nov. 2022
• Deaths from or likely from the illness that attacks the respiratory system remained flat during the latest uptick, city data show.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 24 June 2020
• Rather than pushing air into the respiratory system, this system changes the air pressure of the environment outside the body.
  — Time, 7 Apr. 2020
• India is now struggling with two major health challenges that are both assaulting the respiratory system and peaking at the same time.
  — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
• The various forms of gas are designed to irritate the eyes, nose and respiratory system and have been widely adopted by police agencies to break up crowds.
  — oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2021
• While not as potent as its cousin, delta-9 THC, delta-8 can still irritate the respiratory system when inhaled.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2023
• Influenza is a viral infection that attacks the respiratory system, the nose, throat, bronchial tubes and lungs.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2022
• There’s plenty of hype about ways of boosting your respiratory system.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2023
• But now, experts know that the bacteria live in thick mucus called sputum in a person’s lower respiratory system—the lower throat and lungs.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024