How to Use respiration in a Sentence

respiration

noun
  • The doctor checked his heartbeat and respiration.
  • Their heart and respiration rates drop to a few beats and breaths per minute.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Keep an eye on your heart rate, respiration, stress, and sleep all in one place.
    — Kegan Mooney, PCMAG, 20 Mar. 2024
  • His blood pressure went through the roof, his respirations were heavy and fast.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2020
  • Chartis is used to screen out patients who have this end-run respiration.
    — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 22 May 2018
  • The third movement is the respiration and only works when the bust is fully closed.
    — Stéphane Jg Girod, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • But root respiration tends to track growth, giving a snapshot.
    — Arkansas Online, 6 July 2021
  • The goal, no matter your fitness level, is to get more out of each respiration.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Young people and athletes tend to have stronger hearts and can survive longer with low respiration rates.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Fentanyl kills by shutting down the part of the brain that controls respiration.
    — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The rib cage does play a role in respiration by providing space for the lungs to fully expand.
    — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Researchers have found that iron and aluminum on fish gills hinder respiration.
    — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Researchers have found that iron and aluminum on fish gills hinder respiration.
    — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Signs of heat stress include open-mouth breathing, drooling and more rapid respiration.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Like fish or humans, corals take in oxygen and emit carbon dioxide through a process of respiration.
    — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 20 Mar. 2017
  • The chemical blocks the respiration process of the sea lampreys.
    — Paul A. Smith, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
  • There seemed to be no getting around the fact that the drugs used to control shivering also stop respiration.
    — Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2022
  • For example, emotional stress can lead to an increase in your heart rate and respiration.
    — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 18 Apr. 2023
  • In fruits and vegetables, oxygen is produced at high respiration rates, which means a shorter shelf life.
    — Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2021
  • And the pneumograph, a device that measures the force of respiration.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Hold for three breaths, using your respiration to facilitate the twist.
    — Dana Santas, CNN, 12 May 2020
  • This type of breathing, in which the lungs and muscles of respiration are used at their full capacity, can help overall health.
    — Cory Martin, Verywell Health, 1 Dec. 2024
  • The team also found damage to the medulla, which controls respiration and movement.
    — Sharon Guynup, Science, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Now fatal opioid overdoses, which can slow respiration to the point that the brain is starved of oxygen, are a growing part of that list.
    — Ted Alcorn, Vox, 24 Sep. 2018
  • Squids do not have blowholes but do have siphons, which look similar and are involved in the animal's respiration process.
    — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
  • From a technical perspective, the robot will need to adapt to a human’s rhythms of respiration.
    — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
  • When a brain goes without oxygen for too long, the part of the brain that helps with respiration can stop working and prevent a person from breathing.
    — Pete Muntean, CNN, 6 June 2023
  • From there, Gorgutsa and his team worked to create a T-shirt that can monitor heart rate and respiration.
    — NBC News, 6 June 2017
  • The Vívosmart 5 can track heart rate, blood oxygen levels, stress, and respiration rates throughout the day and night.
    — Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The scraps that remain are discarded as part of respiration, in the outgoing carbon dioxide, or in urine.
    — David Prologo, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2018

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