How to Use voice box in a Sentence

voice box

noun
  • In fact, the key to fine structure may be the avian voice box.
    Adam Fishbein, Scientific American, 1 May 2022
  • 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
  • In just under a few hours, the battery can destroy a child’s voice box.
    Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 11 May 2018
  • The show is very adept with its tricks, many of which emanate from the flexible voice box of Ryan Knowles.
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • But how exactly does a pair of dentures get caught in one's voice box?
    Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • But his enemies find him there, and in the fight that ensues, B-127’s voice box is muted.
    Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 18 Dec. 2018
  • Their lack of testosterone left them with the voice box of a boy, and large chest cavities gave them great lung power for singing.
    Alexandra Wolfe, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Most of those neighbors didn’t want to talk, or at least didn’t answer when called on their front-gate voice boxes.
    Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Tight end Miller Forristall is currently out six weeks for an injury to his voice box.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Purring involves the rapid movement of the muscles of the larynx (voice box) combined with movement of the diaphragm (the muscle at the base of the chest cavity).
    Iris Katz, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 19 Sep. 2020
  • The air rushing in hits your voice box, causing your vocal cords to close suddenly.
    Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Najee Harris left with a bum ankle and Miller Forristall is out for six week with a rare throat/voice box injury.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Also, croup causes swelling of the voice box and the windpipe, which are part of the upper respiratory tract.
    Ashley Abramson, Health, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Hoarseness is usually a symptom of problems in the vocal folds of your larynx, aka your voice box.
    Korin Miller, Health.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Tight end Miller Forristall, who is working back from a throat/voice box injury, was once again practicing.
    Matt Zenitz | Mzenitz@al.com, al, 18 Dec. 2019
  • These include cancers of the throat, esophagus, mouth, voice box (larynx), colon and rectum, liver, and breast.
    Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 27 June 2019
  • But that notion is based on monkey-cadaver research from the 1960s, when tools to see live voice boxes didn’t exist.
    Jessica Boddy, Popular Science, 2 Feb. 2020
  • For centuries, researchers have studied how the shapes formed by the human vocal tract—which runs from the larynx, or voice box, to the mouth and nasal cavity—affect the sounds that emerge from it.
    Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Ogitsu had a laryngectomy, a surgery in which all or part of the larynx -- also known as the voice box -- is removed.
    Michelle Cohan, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Today’s amphibians, reptiles and mammals all possess a larynx, or voice box, near the top of their airway.
    Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The respiratory system includes the nose, throat, voice box, windpipe and lungs.
    Guest Columnist/cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Whales produce sounds by sending air from their nasal tract past their phonic lips – a pair of vibrating muscular folds that act like our voice box.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2012
  • The trachea, or windpipe, which spans from right below the voice box to the bronchi, or airways branching to the lungs, has been an area of intense study in the world of transplant surgery and airway reconstruction.
    Nina Shapiro, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The bats made low-frequency sounds through their false vocal folds, a part of the voice box not typically used by humans to speak or sing, Elemans said.
    Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Traditionally, cancers of the head and neck were often linked to alcohol or smoking, and these non-HPV cancers tend to be located at the front of the mouth and the voice box.
    Martha Shade, CNN, 15 Dec. 2022
  • At 2 years old, her son's beaten the odds again, this time as the recipient of the world's first successful total voice box reconstruction.
    Scottie Andrew and Brian Ries, CNN, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Tests revealed parts of his larynx were necrotising - or rotting - and excess fluid was collecting in the voice box.
    Andrea Downey, Fox News, 25 June 2018
  • Among them, head and neck cancer. Head and neck cancers include cancers of the throat, mouth, oral cavity, voice box, paranasal sinuses and nasal cavity, neck, and salivary glands.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 28 Sep. 2023
  • In this condition, both vocal cords and the voice box can become partially or completely paralyzed.
    Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 7 Nov. 2023

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