How to Use trachea in a Sentence

trachea

noun
  • The bronchi are the large tubes that carry air from the trachea to the lungs.
    — Kathi Valeii, Verywell Health, 4 July 2024
  • Mike knew that the man who lived inside had a hole in his trachea and couldn’t talk.
    — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Next, the glottis snaps shut, putting a lid over the trachea, or windpipe.
    — Howard Lewine, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The blade opened her carotid artery and cut her trachea in half, Jim Gund said.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2020
  • There was swelling in his trachea and at the back of his throat, according to the report.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • People can cough when the tube goes in toward the trachea, a deep, forceful cough.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The base of the tongue leads to the epiglottis, a flap of tissue that protects the trachea.
    — Clayton Dalton, The New Yorker, 27 May 2020
  • Even then, the breathing tube must bend forward into the trachea.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The same could not be said of her trachea, which had been punctured lethally from the attack.
    — Marvin Hurst, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The whoosh and sigh of a ventilator feeds oxygen through the tube in her trachea.
    — Eric Adler, kansascity.com, 25 Apr. 2017
  • My watch feels heavy on my wrist, and breathing gets harder as the G forces clamp down on my trachea.
    — Scott Kelly, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Did the coroner look for evidence only in the trachea and lungs?
    — Star Tribune, 27 Feb. 2021
  • The bomb blast also took out part of his trachea, which makes talking difficult.
    — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2021
  • The breath is the power source of the voice, coming up from the lungs through the trachea to the vocal cords or vocal folds.
    — Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
  • As the air clears your trachea, the irritant attached to the lining of your airway is cleared with it.
    — Jenny Sweigard, Verywell Health, 1 July 2024
  • The lifespan of an infant born without a trachea is measured in minutes.
    — Crocker Stephenson, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Choke and prong collars can injure a dog’s trachea and esophagus and damage skin.
    — WSJ, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Oxygen can be delivered through tubes resting in the nose, a face mask or tube placed in the trachea or windpipe.
    — CNN, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Young suffered from swelling on her face and body, as well as a swollen trachea, according to her attorneys.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2021
  • But dogs can, because the infected lungs and trachea produce a trademark scent.
    — New York Times, 31 May 2021
  • The study authors adeptly captured Nesyamun’s from his lips back down to the trachea.
    — Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Now, this is all starting to smell like a dead rat implanted with an artificial trachea.
    — Vulture, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Melinik suspected that the man had tracheitis, or an inflammation of the trachea, caused by the virus.
    — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 25 Apr. 2020
  • Many of the cancers that were found to be among this unusually younger group were of the breast, trachea, lung, bowel, and stomach.
    — Heather Hunter, Washington Examiner, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The weapon wielded by the woman she was called to help had sliced through her trachea, leaving her with only one salvageable vocal cord.
    — Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 17 May 2024
  • Over time, the sedation was decreased, and respiratory tubes were switched from the mouth to the trachea.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 29 May 2018
  • On the drop curtain there’s a giant skull viewed from the side, a spinal cord and what appears to be a trachea at a disturbing remove from the spine.
    — Ann Murphy, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2017
  • He’s supposed to use animal skills to hunt, but are there many four-legged predators out there proficient with a blow dart or a pen to the trachea?
    — Mark Kennedy, Boston Herald, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The epiglottis blocks the trachea during swallowing.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
  • In the studies, a larynx or trachea would be taken from a donor and all its cells removed using detergents and enzymes.
    — Matt Warren, Science | AAAS, 29 Mar. 2018

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