How to Use respirator in a Sentence

respirator

noun
  • Kylie received about five pints of blood and was put on a respirator.
    — Washington Post, 17 July 2019
  • Those masks will have to cover the nose and mouth, and may not have a valve or respirator.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2021
  • One of them spent more than two weeks in the hospital on a respirator.
    — NBC News, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Campbell was in a coma for over six weeks and had to breathe through a respirator.
    — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
  • But a proportion of them are very ill and are on respirators.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Your respirator should create a tight seal on your face, without gaps that let in air.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 20 Apr. 2022
  • In the face of omicron, respirator masks have emerged as the gold standard.
    — Macaela MacKenzie, SELF, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Her filing said she was given a dust mask in lieu of the proper kind of respirator.
    — Josh Eidelson, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2022
  • There was a pile in one corner of large rubber respirators, but none of the men was using them.
    — Daniel Stone, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025
  • And don't forget to protect your lungs with a welding respirator like this one.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2014
  • Deciding on the right type of mask or respirator has slowed adoption too.
    — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • So her face is obscured by a heavy-duty respirator with big, pink filters, two bright spots in the dim light.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2020
  • The first passenger to reach the baggage claim wore a respirator mask.
    — The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Boudreaux and hundreds of other paramedics wore respirator masks and two pairs of gloves to try to keep the virus away from their bodies.
    — Juliet Linderman and Claire Galofaro, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Garcia writes in his report that the oil is thick enough that people need to wear respirators because of fumes.
    — Jeff Amy, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2018
  • Determined to help his squad, Sam hurled his body on the steel door with so much force, that his respirator shield cracked.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
  • Hutchins has entered the cave dozens of times to collect data, wearing a full respirator.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Workers in the ash footprint must also wear Tyvek suits, gloves and a respirator, the corps said.
    — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025
  • The design reminds me of the larger respirator masks used for house painting.
    — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2021
  • There are a range of respirators that are a step up from the basic N95 filter.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Fazio said studies have found that in many shops, dust is so thick in the air that respirators cannot filter out a sufficient amount.
    — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The men are wearing shorts, T-shirts, and flip-flops—no respirators or other safety gear in sight.
    — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Many health care workers have had to reuse N95 respirator masks over and over again.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 5 Dec. 2020
  • Haldane helped to work on the box respirator, the direct ancestor of the modern gas mask.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 3 May 2017
  • With the body gone, McGuire is able to swap the heavy respirator for an N95 mask.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2020
  • Quinlan needed both a respirator and a feeding tube.
    — Robert S. Olick, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Starita urged area residents to wear respirator masks to avoid breathing in the toxic fumes.
    — Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 11 Oct. 2025
  • If the index is higher than 500, the use of the respirators is required.
    — Camille Von Kaenel, The Mercury News, 22 July 2019
  • The respirator, which was finalized in 1972, has yet to be one-upped.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 28 May 2020
  • One of the bullets severed his spine, leaving him paralyzed on a respirator.
    — Alice Gainer, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026

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