How to Use airway in a Sentence

airway

noun

• Opening your jaws causes the tongue to slump backward, obstructing your airway.
  — Jen Rose Smith and Illustrations By Max Pepper, CNN, 20 Aug. 2020
• Intubation is the process of inserting a tube through a patient’s mouth into their airway.
  — Fortune, 10 Sep. 2020
• The most severe cases are in infants, whose small airways can become more easily blocked, Schaffner said.
  — Emma Bowman, NPR, 21 Sep. 2024
• Their instructor stood at the front of the class, holding an airway demonstration model and asking her students questions about it.
  — Farah Eltohamy, The Arizona Republic, 9 Oct. 2020
• One theory is that young children have fewer sites on their airway surfaces that the coronavirus is able to attach to, Pavia said.
  — Mike Stobbe, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2020
• Sleep apnea is a condition that causes a sleeper’s breathing to pause when the muscles of the throat relax too much and the airway collapses.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
• Masks work by catching these particles between our airway and the outside environment via one of several modes.
  — Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 30 Sep. 2020
• Weir’s quick action dislodged the food blocking the individual’s airway.
  — Daily Southtown Staff, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• This particular lipopeptide exactly matches a stretch of amino acids in the spike protein of the virus, which the pathogen uses to attach to a human airway or lung cell.
  — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 5 Nov. 2020
• This past June, the department expanded that rule with a ban on any maneuver or tactic that prevents breathing or obstructs someone’s airway.
  — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• These could all be symptoms of bronchitis, a condition that develops when the airways in your lungs become inflamed, or pneumonia, which causes your lungs to fill up with fluid or pus.
  — Juno Demelo, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2024
• If a virus gets past the mucus river, its next aim is to find the cells that line the airway, known as epithelial cells, then get inside them and hijack their molecular machinery to make more copies of itself.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 12 Nov. 2020
• While traditional ventilators have many control methods, Clayton’s team focused on just one: how much volume is forced into the airway.
  — Erin Schulte, Wired, 21 Aug. 2020
• Follow these tips to keep your grandchildren safe while sleeping: · Stuff animals, bumpers, and additional accessories can block a baby’s airway during sleep.
  — Lauren Harrison, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 12 Sep. 2020
• The body kicks into gear to dispel the foreign invaders, triggering spontaneous reflexes like coughing that helps cilia, the little hairs lining the cells of the airway, beat the particles out.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2020
• Since the voice box and the airway are at the front of the neck, a fracture can impact two parts of the body.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2021
• The moisture helps open the airways to relieve dry cough.
  — Nicole Harris, Parents, 10 July 2023
• Her airway had narrowed to the size of the opening of a drinking straw.
  — Justin L. MacK, The Indianapolis Star, 4 July 2021
• The deputy then instructs the paramedic to put the injured man on his back and to open his airway.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 29 Aug. 2022
• Coughing is your body's way of trying to keep the airways clear.
  — Korin Miller, Health, 28 Nov. 2023
• When a person is asleep, the muscles around the back of the throat relax, and this can be enough to close the airway.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2021
• The best way to do that is to keep the head and shoulders aligned which keeps the airway as open as possible.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 24 May 2022
• This supports the jaw and increases space in the airway.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 11 June 2021
• Choking occurs when food or small objects get caught in the throat and block the airway.
  — Lauren Harrison, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 3 Apr. 2021
• Make sure there's nothing in the person's mouth or cheek that would block their airway.
  — Sarah Fielding, Health.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• These restraints restrict the airway or blood flow to the brain when pressure is applied to the neck.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2021
• This one, however, seems to like the airway above the lungs, including the throat.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 4 Feb. 2022
• The baby has stopped breathing; shift her head so that her airway opens.
  — David Wallace, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
• The airway went silent, the body relaxed and there was something in the next moments that felt to him almost like peace.
  — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff Eli Saslow, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• But deep in the airway, T cells may provide a second line of defense.
  — Carl Zimmer, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024