How to Use air sac in a Sentence

air sac

noun

• The males fan their tails and pump their air sacs up and down.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 11 Jan. 2024
• Where macrophages are found in alveoli, the tiny air sacs in the lungs.
  — The Conversation, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• The kiwi chick sticks its bill into an air sac at the top of the egg, and starts to squeak.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2017
• Check the Egg Whites Remember the air sacs mentioned in the float test?
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Nov. 2023
• When those air sacs become clogged, the lungs stiffen up.
  — oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2020
• Healthy lungs are filled with millions of tiny air sacs called alveoli.
  — Hang Do Thi Duc, New York Times, 31 May 2023
• This damage causes the air sacs to lose their shape and become floppy.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health, 17 Mar. 2024
• Peel off the shell, starting at the fatter end (where the air sac is). Dipping eggs under water will help.
  — NBC News, 19 Oct. 2019
• With an electric zap, the liquid shifts forward; its body follows with the air sac acting like a tail.
  — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2021
• The air sac links onto an extension on the hyoid bone known as the hyoid bulla.
  — Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2011
• In people with emphysema, the air sacs in the lungs (alveoli) are damaged.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023
• These tiny air sacs take in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
• But the fossils also suggested that the evolution of air sacs had started by this time.
  — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 26 July 2023
• In theory, the test is meant to determine whether air has reached the microscopic air sacs inside the lungs.
  — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2023
• The lizards could remain underwater for up to 18 minutes while rebreathing through the air sac.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
• Non-human primates have an organ called an air sac, a large cavity that connects to the vocal tract.
  — Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2011
• Just like humans, dogs can also get pneumonia, which is an inflammation of air sacs in the lungs.
  — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
• Modern humans have neither an air sac nor an extension on the hyoid bone.
  — Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2011
• As Mayo Clinic states, double pneumonia is an infection that inflames the air sacs in both lungs.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 14 Mar. 2019
• Scientists learned that air sacs evolved to allow the baleen whale to recycle air while creating vocal sounds.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 25 Feb. 2024
• American Zoologist Horned screamers have air sacs under their skin that reduce the birds’ weight and help them glide long distances through the air.
  — National Geographic, 28 May 2020
• Ventilators not only help people breathe but also can provide pressure that holds the lungs open so the air sacs don’t collapse.
  — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 30 Mar. 2020
• As the air sacs are infected and damaged, this triggers the immune system, which can lead to a dangerous condition called a cytokine storm.
  — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2020
• One is called organizing pneumonia, which is when the tiny airways and air sacs become inflamed.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2019
• Pulmonary fibrosis is a chronic disease where tissue surrounding the air sacs in the lungs becomes thickened and scarred.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 25 Sep. 2023
• Scientifically speaking, the older the eggs are, the more porous the shells become, creating an air sac that separates the membrane (not good).
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Nov. 2023
• One is called organizing pneumonia, which is when tiny airways and air sacs become inflamed.
  — NBC News, 24 Oct. 2019
• Kheradmand suspects that vape solvents disrupt the ability of cells to recycle lung surfactant, an oil-protein substance that is required to keep the air sacs open.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• More than a dozen studies have examined the potential connection between air pollutants like wildfire smoke and pneumonia, which occurs when the lungs’ air sacs fill with pus.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 12 July 2023
• Sauropods also independently evolved a birdlike lung with air sacs throughout their bodies, making their breathing more efficient and their bodies lighter for their size.
  — Michael D. D'emic, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024