How to Use alveolar in a Sentence

alveolar

adjective
  • The word “two” begins with an alveolar sound.
  • The alveolar wall is only one cell thick.
    — Bill Frist, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The # is an alveolar click, made by pulling the tip of the tongue down sharply from the roof of the mouth to make the sound of a popping cork.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2010
  • The alveolar bone is the specialized bone in the jaw that surrounds and supports the roots of the teeth.
    — New Atlas, 22 June 2025
  • In other words, the skulls were left long enough for the alveolar process—the part that holds the teeth in place—to start breaking down.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 15 June 2020
  • When pneumonia occurs, the thin layer of alveolar cells is damaged by the virus.
    — USA Today, 14 Mar. 2020
  • Keeping alveolar macrophages in check would be the best way to stop COPD at its roots.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2015
  • When the particle deposits here, protective alveolar macrophages rush to engulf it.
    — Bill Frist, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • But in fact these dental alveolar syndesmoses (technical speak for the tiny ligamentous joint between the tooth and jaw socket) move all the time.
    — Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Getting a tooth pulled carries a risk of experiencing a dry socket, also known as alveolar osteitis.
    — Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Generally, cells in the lungs called alveolar macrophages will pick up the particulates and clear them out – at reasonable doses.
    — The Conversation, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Generally, cells in the lungs called alveolar macrophages will pick up the particulates and clear them out – at reasonable doses.
    — Christopher T. Migliaccio, Fortune, 7 June 2023
  • Inside our lungs, white blood cells called alveolar macrophages work to keep the airways clean by engulfing and digesting debris, including dust and dead cells.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2015
  • The pigment can damage the lungs by increasing the number of cells there, a condition called alveolar hyperplasia.
    — Neil Bedi, ProPublica, 14 Dec. 2022
  • For example, immune cells called alveolar macrophages in the lung suppress inflammation once the threat posed by the pathogen diminishes.
    — Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Researchers therefore wanted to test alendronate’s ability to kill alveolar macrophages.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2015
  • Implants require invasive surgery and good combination of implants and alveolar bone.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
  • She was diagnosed with Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare soft tissue cancer.
    — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Jim didn’t have any of the conditions, like lupus or other autoimmune diseases, that usually cause alveolar hemorrhage.
    — Judi Ketteler, Good Housekeeping, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Duong was diagnosed with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma last year, a rare and aggressive cancer affecting soft tissue.
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Doctors told the family Chloe had alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare cancer that forms in the soft tissue of skeletal muscle, or in organs such as the bladder or uterus.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The study noted that these metals can increase the risk of inflammation and cytotoxicity—which causes cell death or severe damage—once inhaled.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
  • The cause was a rare and aggressive cancer of the soft tissue, alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, according to the organizers of an online funding appeal.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Covid patients can develop scar tissue and permanent changes to the alveolar walls that limit airflow even after the inflammation and fluid of an active infection has cleared.
    — Hang Do Thi Duc, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • Pollutants reaching the alveolar gas-exchanging membranes are removed by specialized cells called phagocytes and macrophages that ingest particles to move most to be carried away via lymph vessels and nodes.
    — Arthur Dalley, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2019
  • Simulation models also revealed that the particles tend to accumulate in the alveolar region of the lungs, the deepest part of the respiratory tract.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
  • When that network of tubes becomes narrowed because of an irritant or infection — some call it an allergy within the lungs — tiny alveolar air sacs are prevented from making a gas exchange that sends oxygen throughout the body.
    — Bruce Selcraig, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Ofelia Torres died last month from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer that develops in skeletal muscles.
    — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The carbon-containing alveolar macrophages in COPD patients’ lungs were also larger than macrophages without visible carbon, the study found.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2025
  • The presence of syncytia, along with alveolar destruction and massive blood clotting, are all characteristic of severe Covid-19.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022

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