How to Use trachea in a Sentence

trachea

noun

• The base of the tongue leads to the epiglottis, a flap of tissue that protects the trachea.
  — Clayton Dalton, The New Yorker, 27 May 2020
• The blade opened her carotid artery and cut her trachea in half, Jim Gund said.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2020
• The tube is placed inside the trachea and a bag is attached.
  — Denise Moran, Elgin Courier-News, 1 May 2017
• Mike knew that the man who lived inside had a hole in his trachea and couldn’t talk.
  — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2021
• The nail punctured the wall of the carpenter’s trachea.
  — Edward Baig, USA TODAY, 12 June 2019
• Next, the glottis snaps shut, putting a lid over the trachea, or windpipe.
  — Howard Lewine, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• There was swelling in his trachea and at the back of his throat, according to the report.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
• The breath is the power source of the voice, coming up from the lungs through the trachea to the vocal cords or vocal folds.
  — Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
• People can cough when the tube goes in toward the trachea, a deep, forceful cough.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2020
• The whoosh and sigh of a ventilator feeds oxygen through the tube in her trachea.
  — Eric Adler, kansascity.com, 25 Apr. 2017
• My watch feels heavy on my wrist, and breathing gets harder as the G forces clamp down on my trachea.
  — Scott Kelly, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
• Did the coroner look for evidence only in the trachea and lungs?
  — Star Tribune, 27 Feb. 2021
• Took a knee, collapsed my trachea, left on a stretcher.
  — Sam Farmer, latimes.com, 15 June 2019
• The goal: get a tube in the trachea to breathe for a patient who can’t get oxygen in or carbon dioxide out, or both.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2015
• Sunday the 49ers simply ran the football down the Packers’ trachea.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 19 Jan. 2020
• 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
• 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
• The study authors adeptly captured Nesyamun’s from his lips back down to the trachea.
  — Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2020
• 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
• On the drop curtain there’s a giant skull viewed from the side, a spinal cord and what appears to be a trachea at a disturbing remove from the spine.
  — Ann Murphy, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2017
• There are two kinds of choke holds: a blood choke, which closes the carotid artery in the neck and cuts off blood supply to the brain; and an air choke, which closes the trachea and stops breathing.
  — Alex Thomas, The New Republic, 9 June 2023
• Many of the cancers that were found to be among this unusually younger group were of the breast, trachea, lung, bowel, and stomach.
  — Heather Hunter, Washington Examiner, 6 Sep. 2023
• Melinik suspected that the man had tracheitis, or an inflammation of the trachea, caused by the virus.
  — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 25 Apr. 2020
• Hundreds of choking deaths occur in the US every year due to food obstructions in the trachea.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 21 Sep. 2009
• The bomb blast also took out part of his trachea, which makes talking difficult.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2021
• Over time, the sedation was decreased, and respiratory tubes were switched from the mouth to the trachea.
  — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 29 May 2018
• These symptoms happen due to swelling that occurs around the larynx (the vocal cords), trachea (windpipe), and bronchi (bronchial tubes).
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 16 Oct. 2018
• The lifespan of an infant born without a trachea is measured in minutes.
  — Crocker Stephenson, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2017
• The larynx functions like an antechamber to the windpipe, or trachea, with a flap of tissue called the epiglottis keeping food and drink from falling down the windpipe.
  — Kate Golembiewski, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• However, in season 8, it was revealed Henry had a tumor near his heart, causing bleeding in his lungs and trachea.
  — Christina Dugan Ramirez, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024

Last Updated: 11 Aug 2024