How to Use life-support system in a Sentence

life-support system

noun
  • Key parts of its life-support system have yet to be fully tested.
    — Editorial, Boston Herald, 21 Jan. 2026
  • First of all, simply because the ocean is our planet's main life-support system.
    — Nell Lewis, CNN, 3 May 2021
  • News reports asked how much oxygen might be left in the submersible’s life-support system.
    — William J. Broad, New York Times, 10 June 2024
  • Nelson said that will also allow more time to work on the crew capsule’s life-support system.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Dec. 2024
  • There is no succession plan, just a life-support system for the post-Wintour era.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 May 2026
  • An onboard life-support system will allow astronauts to survive in their suits for up to eight hours.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The crew will stay in orbit for three months, during which the life-support system and maintenance will be tested.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Van Cleave stressed the life-support system is associated with a lot of risks.
    — Jessica Van Egeren, Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The life-support system temporarily replaces the function of the heart and lungs.
    — oregonlive, 9 July 2020
  • Yet it could be argued the GT R is merely an engine mount life-support system.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
  • And there would likely need to be some sort of redundancy, meaning if one part of the life-support system failed, a backup would kick in.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2022
  • The life-support system that Gatens spent nearly a decade working on would never be used for Freedom.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Getting him out damages a life-support system, and the ensuing issues cause a moral conundrum about who lives and who dies.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Anyone who dares to venture past our world’s upper atmosphere will die painfully without a life-support system.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Though the museum has generators to power life-support systems for its fish and wildlife, the power never went out.
    — Chabeli Herrera, Andres Viglucci, Carli Teproff and Michelle Kaufman, miamiherald, 13 Sep. 2017
  • About 90% of the Orion capsule's life-support system had never been tested before in space.
    — Mark Osborne, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The garment also absorbs heats, carrying it away from the spacesuit's life-support system, expelling it into space.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 9 June 2026
  • The utter lack of climate and lower gravity means the two worlds require vastly different life-support system designs.
    — Neel V. Patel, Slate Magazine, 14 Dec. 2017
  • But now actor Mark Ruffalo is on a mission to preserve the church and save its place as a life-support system for the community.
    — Jada Clarke, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
  • SpaceX also needs to integrate a life-support system into Starship ahead of Artemis 4.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 28 May 2026
  • Crew members spent their first day in space making sure the life-support systems on the spacecraft worked and testing out Orion’s manual engine control.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The crew needs to make sure all life-support systems are running smoothly and interactions with onboard automation systems are going well.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2023
  • This knowledge was crucial for designing life-support systems and protocols for human astronauts.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
  • But in this amusing, pointed romp, Grandad Claxon is little more than a tuft of hair in a high-tech wheelchair, a rolling life-support system that bleeps and hisses and leaks.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • And for the first time ever, some of the components in an astronaut life-support system will be designed by artificial intelligence.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 29 June 2020
  • Consider Earth’s life-support systems as analogous to the instrument panel of a complex aircraft.
    — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Chilled water constantly flows through these channels, routing across the body’s major muscle groups to absorb metabolic heat and pump it away to the suit’s backpack life-support system.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 June 2026
  • Dive protocols required that Vescovo check in with the surface every fifteen minutes and announce his depth and heading and the status of his life-support system.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 10 May 2020
  • The entire interior of the vehicle emulates the real spacecraft, complete with flight software and a life-support system.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 2018
  • Standing on four legs, Lanyue is designed to transport two taikonauts along with scientific equipment, life-support systems and supplies for multi-day stays on the moon.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025

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