How to Use windpipe in a Sentence

windpipe

noun
Definition of windpipenext
  • Nasal hair cannot stop them, nor can the mucus in the windpipe.
    — Vijayta Lalwani, Quartz India, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The seat belt appeared to be wrapped around the child's windpipe, said the restaurant.
    — Kelsie Smith, CNN, 16 Oct. 2020
  • The sting of anger races down my windpipe, rooting through my lungs.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2021
  • In the story, a piece of steak is stuck in the narrator’s windpipe.
    — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Next, the glottis snaps shut, putting a lid over the trachea, or windpipe.
    — Howard Lewine, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • When the video starts, the turtle has the duck’s neck gripped in its jaws, either by a strip of skin or maybe by the windpipe.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 13 July 2023
  • With croup, the virus infects the vocal cords, windpipe and bronchial tubes, Piperidis said.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Here's how to do it: Place your index and third fingers on your neck to the side of your windpipe.
    — Emily Shiffer, Men's Health, 13 June 2023
  • Her old windpipe looks raw and red, her new one smooth as porcelain.
    — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2021
  • That’s when doctors have to insert a tube in the windpipe of someone who can’t breathe on her own.
    — Marthe Fourcade, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2020
  • The chain struck Bradley across the throat, crushing his windpipe and cutting off the supply of oxygen to his brain.
    — Charles Fleming, latimes.com, 26 May 2017
  • The rope dropped heavy over her head and tightened around her throat, crushing her windpipe.
    — Ayana Mathis, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Williams, 27, said doctors sewed up two large holes in Chlo’ee’s windpipe.
    — Ramon Antonio Vargas | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 27 Nov. 2020
  • Peck pushed a tube down the windpipe to open an airway and covered his torso with a chest seal.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2019
  • In the lungs, the larvae claw their way out of the organ's tiny air sacs and then clamber up to the windpipe to the pharynx to be coughed and swallowed.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Stacy's torso was nearly sliced in two, her throat was cut to her windpipe and her wrist was slashed to the bone.
    — Tim Evans, Indianapolis Star, 31 Jan. 2014
  • With his windpipe cleared, the man reportedly man went on to enjoy the rest of his meal.
    — Southern Living, 28 June 2018
  • The force of the cord around his windpipe instantly rips the man back to reality.
    — Jen Spyra, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Following an X-ray and CT, scans showed the man suffered a tear in the trachea, also known as the windpipe.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The machine is connected to a patient through a tube that goes into the windpipe.
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Inflammation of the bronchial tubes, which connect the windpipe to the lungs, is reduced and the walls of the alveoli, the tiny sacs of air that make up the lungs, become stronger.
    — Holly Barker, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Whereas the larynx resides at the top of the main airway, the syrinx sits at the bottom, where the trachea (aka the windpipe) branches out to the lungs.
    — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
  • In the emergency room, X-rays showed that the pent-up pressure from the sneeze had escaped the windpipe and ripped the soft tissue of his pharynx.
    — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Her windpipe is severed, her skirt is hiked, her panties are under her body.
    — James Ellroy, Vanities, 7 Oct. 2017
  • The symptoms include swelling around the voice box, windpipe, and bronchi (two large tubes that funnel air from your windpipe to your lungs).
    — Serena Coady, SELF, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The researchers also infected tissue from the bronchi, the tubes in the upper chest that deliver air from the windpipe to the lungs.
    — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Collars can create strain on your dog's windpipe and in some cases, their spine.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 20 July 2022
  • For example, a slippery hard candy with a round shape about the size of a drinking straw could block a windpipe.
    — Lauren Harrison, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 3 Apr. 2021
  • Oxygen can be delivered through tubes resting in the nose, a face mask or tube placed in the trachea or windpipe.
    — CNN, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Made from a polymer scaffold coated with the patient's own cells, the windpipe seems to be working out well, more than a month after the surgery.
    — Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 11 July 2011

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