How to Use lung in a Sentence
lung
noun- He filled his lungs with the clean. fresh air.
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The right lung is on the left side and the left lung is on the right side.
— Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2023 -
Others can cause burns to the skin, eyes, throat, nose, and lungs.
— Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2023 -
In 2015, she was forced to drop out of Dancing with the Stars due to blood clots in both of her lungs.
— Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024 -
Blake Treinen is also on the IL because of a bruised lung.
— Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024 -
The impact had broken their ribs and burst their lungs.
— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2024 -
Harmonies sung at the top of my lungs in the backseat of my parents’ car.
— Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023 -
The cause was lung cancer that metastasized to the brain, said his son, Michael Austin.
— Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023 -
This leads to paralysis and then the end of lung function.
— Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023 -
Reyes was shot multiple times in an arm, his back and a lung.
— NBC news, 7 May 2023 -
In the hospital, doctors drained two and a half liters of fluid from the wall of his lungs.
— Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2023 -
His wife, Cheri Forrester, said the cause was lung cancer.
— Clay Risen, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023 -
After surgery to remove part of the damaged lung, the pup spent six nerve-wracking days in the ICU.
— Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2023 -
Goldman, 25, had stab wounds to his throat, lungs and abdomen.
— Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024 -
Key Takeaways Running in extreme cold is hard on the heart and lungs.
— Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 23 Jan. 2024 -
In the early 1950s, King George VI’s lung cancer was kept out of the public domain.
— Karla Adam, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024 -
In rare cases, the infection can spread outside the lungs to places such as the skin, bones, brain and spinal cord.
— Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN, 1 May 2023 -
The fatal round entered his right hip and ripped through his liver, lung and heart.
— Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023 -
First Class Heath Robinson, who died of lung cancer at 39.
— Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024 -
The clone only lived for a few minutes and died because of a lung defect.
— Theara Coleman, The Week, 22 Feb. 2023 -
The drugs have beaten back all but one tumor in Monje’s lung.
— Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 18 Sep. 2024 -
She was stabbed with an ice pick, with fatal wounds to her heart and lungs, which were determined to be the cause of death.
— Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 21 May 2024 -
In the clip, Luna and her mom snuggled up on the couch to watch the video, when Luna suddenly screeched at the top of her lungs.
— Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2024 -
Brosso had suffered a fatal stab wound to her back that pierced her lung and aorta.
— Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2023 -
But Delfi appears to be the first to focus first on lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death.
— Matthew Herper Reprints, STAT, 9 Oct. 2023 -
For the past six years, Elyssa Barbaro has gotten screened for lung cancer.
— Time, 28 Nov. 2022 -
The victim was being treated for a stab wound on the left side of his torso and a punctured lung.
— Greg Wehner, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2023 -
All Gosling can eke out is a small grunt/sigh that will basically knock the air right out of your lungs.
— Meredith Woerner, Variety, 4 May 2024 -
Workers in their 20s and 30s have ended up reliant on oxygen tanks and in need of lung transplants.
— Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024 -
The screenings found abnormal lungs in 62 people and diagnosed seven people with lung cancer, including Rogers.
— Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 3 Dec. 2024
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