How to Use oxygen in a Sentence

oxygen

noun
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  • SpaceX later revealed there was an oxygen leak on that second stage.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 26 July 2024
  • Hope is the oxygen of democracy, but inequality is the enemy of hope.
    — Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 25 July 2024
  • The cause of the leak was identified as a crack in a sense line for a pressure sensor attached to the vehicle’s oxygen system.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 26 July 2024
  • One of the reasons why battery fires are hard to put out is because the materials used in lithium-ion generate their own oxygen.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2024
  • Neighbors described frequent disputes, as trucks often blocked the road outside the hospital to unload large cylinders of oxygen.
    — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 26 May 2024
  • Apple is also fighting for the right to use the existing blood oxygen sensor in its newer Apple Watches.
    — Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 5 June 2024
  • That’s horrendous for creatures in the deep who need the oxygen the AMOC delivers to survive.
    — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 25 July 2024
  • Tobacco smoke causes generalized narrowing of blood vessels, restricting the amount of blood and oxygen that reaches tissues.
    — Scott Sundick, Verywell Health, 3 June 2024
  • The crewed flight test was tentatively scheduled for May 6, but was scrubbed after a problem with an oxygen valve on the ULA rocket.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 5 June 2024
  • The research included 257 people who needed to remove plaque from their carotid arteries, the blood vessels on the sides of the neck that carry blood and oxygen between the heart and brain.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 31 May 2024
  • The loud hum of his oxygen machine echoed through the courtroom.
    — Steve Karnowski, Fortune, 29 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • The heart and the kidneys can become deprived of blood and oxygen, leading to kidney failure.
    — Noah Weiland, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • Already, the shooting has sucked the oxygen out of the story, with no new Democrats calling on Biden to step down with the spotlight squarely on Trump.
    — David Sivak, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 July 2024
  • As Hart puts it, your heart rate and breathing rate will then amp up to supply your body with the oxygen to complete that extra work.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Doctors in Haiti are desperate for help amid a lack of oxygen and a shortage of water.
    — Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 11 Mar. 2024

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