How to Use pulmonary in a Sentence

pulmonary

adjective
  • Rocky died of a pulmonary embolism at the home at the age of 75.
    — Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Her cause of death was ruled to be hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 7 May 2026
  • The venom targets the lungs and heart and can cause death from pulmonary edema.
    — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Mensah was on the team but sidelined by a pulmonary embolism.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The blood clots can travel to your lungs, causing a pulmonary embolism.
    — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 27 July 2023
  • In this surgery, a patient's pulmonary valve is harvested from their heart.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The fifth, a five-month-old, died in 1975 from acute pulmonary edema.
    — Fox News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • While a pulmonary embolism solely caused by travel is rare, there are some steps to take to prevent them.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The cause was a pulmonary embolism, said a daughter, Lena Salins.
    — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2020
  • The aerosols of the Salton Sea trigger unique pulmonary problems in the lungs of mice.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The cause of death in four patients was another type of blood clot in the lungs, called a pulmonary embolism.
    — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 14 May 2020
  • Texas officials have said the cause of the state’s latest measles death was measles pulmonary failure.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The cause was pulmonary fibrosism, said a son-in-law, Scott Kerns.
    — Washington Post, 3 June 2021
  • The cause was pulmonary fibrosis, said her cousin Sara Kambestad.
    — Emily Langer, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
  • Blood clots in the lungs, called pulmonary emboli, most often occur in people who have known risk for them.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Some of them could no longer run or climb stairs, and yet their X-rays and pulmonary-function tests looked normal.
    — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Arakawa died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a flu-like virus that is linked to rodent droppings.
    — Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
  • That blood clot could break loose and travel to your lungs, causing a pulmonary embolism, which can be fatal.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 4 Aug. 2025
  • O’Hara’s age also put her at higher risk for pulmonary embolism.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Clots in the veins go to the lung and can cause a pulmonary embolism, while clots in arteries can go to the brain and cause a stroke.
    — USA Today, 18 May 2020
  • Because of the strain a pulmonary embolism puts on the heart, the anatomy is distorted.
    — Daniel Torrent, STAT, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Chelsea was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism; two large blood clots in her lungs were stopping the flow of blood to her heart.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 10 May 2026
  • The condition is also known as a pulmonary embolism, when a blood clot gets stuck in the blood vessels in the lungs.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 27 May 2025
  • Johnson also had two strokes, two pulmonary embolisms caused by blood clots in his legs, and pneumonia.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2026
  • If eaten in high enough levels, the poisons can lead to lethal fluid buildup in the lungs (pulmonary edema).
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Arakawa, 65, died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
    — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 11 May 2026
  • Arakawa, 65, died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
    — Eve Chen, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • His son, Sam, said the cause of death, in a hospital, was pulmonary fibrosis.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • In some cases, pulmonary embolism causes few warning signs.
    — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Her brother, Alex Cox, died that same year from a pulmonary embolism and was never charged.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 25 July 2025

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