How to Use septum in a Sentence

septum

noun
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  • This hole was in her septum, the wall that separates the left chambers from the right ones.
    — Heather Lanier, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Your Ex's New Boyfriend A 24-year-old with a septum piercing, huh?
    — Tyler Coates, Esquire, 30 June 2017
  • This girl with the awesome septum ring, choker, and knee socks.
    — Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 13 July 2017
  • The septum piercings and lip rings might be only for the brave... or the social media-savvy.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 4 May 2021
  • Maysonet has also seen an increase in nose piercings, both on the nostril and the septum.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Glitz covered her lengthy talons, septum ring, and hoop earrings.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Willow Smith, who performs as Willow, has all the trappings of the emo punk genre: the florid lyrics, the emotive bellow, the septum piercing.
    — Sarah Grant, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2022
  • In it, her daughter poses in a white top and septum piercing while letting her dark-red curls hang loose.
    — Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Pitts was left with a concussion and fractured septum (nose).
    — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Continue to draw a thin line down your septum (the part of your nose that separates your two nostrils) and halfway down to the middle of your lip.
    — Brooke Shunatona, Cosmopolitan, 30 June 2017
  • In the spring of 1983, Mike had surgery for a nasal septum reconstruction but never seemed to recover.
    — Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Among the plants is Pavonia septum, whose small yellow flower pleased Hudson’s eye.
    — Javier Pierini, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Harvey also cut into the cardiac septum of a living dog, and showed that no blood spurted out through pores.
    — John J. Ross, WSJ, 24 July 2022
  • The third showcases her throwing up a peace sign with the needle straight through her septum cartilage.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The woman in this case had a horizontal wall, known as a transverse vaginal septum (TVS).
    — Samantha Lauriello, Health.com, 15 July 2019
  • Nathalie Emmanuel With her septum piercing and love of print and color, Nathalie Emmanuel has a fearless take on fashion.
    — Vogue, 14 July 2017
  • Lowrie, who arrived at the A’s spring camp Saturday, says that the septum surgery and the removal of a cyst from his left foot have left him in better shape heading than he’s enjoyed in years.
    — John Hickey, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2017
  • The Don't Worry Darling star accessorized the look with a pair of pink geometric earrings, a subtle septum ring and a pair of pink platform heels.
    — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2022
  • Paired with her septum ring and earrings, Erivo's brows look more like stunning pieces of jewelry than makeup.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 7 May 2018
  • The High School Musical star had a rhinoplasty in 2007 to fix a deviated septum.
    — Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The actress's black stilettos and septum nose piercing further added an edge to her otherwise classic look.
    — Melody Leibner, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 June 2022
  • Abraham previously faced backlash from the mom shamers when Sophia got a septum piercing for her 13th birthday last year.
    — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Your doctor must know how to make more space by either fixing your septum, which separates the left and right airways, or reducing the size of your turbinates, the structures on the side wall inside the nose.
    — Carlos Wolf, miamiherald, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Jaimi, the chill bisexual with a septum piercing from Nick's season, arrives to stir things up.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Twigs’s mastery of forms of movement, as well as her status as a fashion icon — with her septum ring, baby hairs and neo-gothic style — has at times outshone her music.
    — Emily J. Lordi Photographs By Liz Johnson Artur, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2020
  • In an apartment in Gaza, a model with a septum piercing wears Meera Adnan’s ’80s-style looks: an oversized jacket with puffy sleeves and extreme high-waist trousers with shell buttons.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Snoring can also be caused by other less-serious conditions, such as nasal polyps, a crooked septum, the shape of your palate or tongue, or a cold or allergies.
    — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Bad Bunny said from Puerto Rico, beating his chest in a yellow hoodie and two nose rings (nostril, septum), in between bites of a hefty calzone.
    — Joe Coscarelli, New York Times, 28 June 2019
  • Because the oxygenated blood traveling from the lungs pours into the left chambers, and the deoxygenated blood flows into the right chambers, a hole in the septum means the two kinds of blood could get mixed — which is trouble.
    — Heather Lanier, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Johnson underwent surgery to repair a deviated septum and remove the polyp, only a month before the Longhorns were supposed to open the season.
    — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Oct. 2020

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