How to Use voice box in a Sentence

voice box

noun
  • In fact, the key to fine structure may be the avian voice box.
    — Adam Fishbein, Scientific American, 1 May 2022
  • The ballpark will be packed with fans who have working voice boxes.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • But how exactly does a pair of dentures get caught in one's voice box?
    — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • In just under a few hours, the battery can destroy a child’s voice box.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 11 May 2018
  • Since the voice box and the airway are at the front of the neck, a fracture can impact two parts of the body.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Most of those neighbors didn’t want to talk, or at least didn’t answer when called on their front-gate voice boxes.
    — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Your throat, or pharynx, is a tube that carries air to your windpipe and larynx (known as the voice box).
    — Laura Schober, Health, 3 July 2024
  • The air rushing in hits your voice box, causing your vocal cords to close suddenly.
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Their lack of testosterone left them with the voice box of a boy, and large chest cavities gave them great lung power for singing.
    — Alexandra Wolfe, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The human hand is one of three pinnacles of hominid evolution, along with the brain and the voice box.
    — Stephen Witt, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • The show is very adept with its tricks, many of which emanate from the flexible voice box of Ryan Knowles.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Tight end Miller Forristall is currently out six weeks for an injury to his voice box.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The symptoms include swelling around the voice box, windpipe, and bronchi (two large tubes that funnel air from your windpipe to your lungs).
    — Serena Coady, SELF, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Vocal sounds are produced as air from the lungs pushes through the larynx (voice box) in the throat, which contains vocal cords.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Baleen whales—filter feeders that include blue whales, fin whales and humpback whales—make noises via a larynx, or voice box.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Air vibrates the tissues in the voice box while an area just above contracts, leaving a small opening for the whistle to escape.
    — ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Air vibrates the tissues in the voice box while an area just above contracts, leaving a small opening for the whistle to escape.
    — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Rodenburg was told that Neanderthals had wide noses with large nasal cavities, broad rib cages, and a short voice box.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2024
  • But his enemies find him there, and in the fight that ensues, B-127’s voice box is muted.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 18 Dec. 2018
  • Screenings might include a medical professional feeling for lumps in the neck or swelling of the lymph nodes or voice box.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Also, croup causes swelling of the voice box and the windpipe, which are part of the upper respiratory tract.
    — Ashley Abramson, Health, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The most common side effects are linked to unwanted activation of nerve fibers that control the voice box and throat.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2025
  • Whales produce sounds by sending air from their nasal tract past their phonic lips – a pair of vibrating muscular folds that act like our voice box.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2012
  • Doctors told him he’d only suffered minor damage to the hyoid bone in his neck and cricoid cartilage around his voice box.
    — Outside, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Tight end Miller Forristall, who is working back from a throat/voice box injury, was once again practicing.
    — Matt Zenitz | [email protected], al, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Air then rushes into your nose (or, less optimally, your mouth); past your throat, voice box, and windpipe; and into your lungs.
    — Gilad Edelman, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2026
  • These include cancers of the throat, esophagus, mouth, voice box (larynx), colon and rectum, liver, and breast.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 27 June 2019
  • Today’s amphibians, reptiles and mammals all possess a larynx, or voice box, near the top of their airway.
    — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
  • With the Botox approach, small amounts of botulinum toxin are injected into the voice box muscles to stop the spasms.
    — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The respiratory system includes the nose, throat, voice box, windpipe and lungs.
    — Guest Columnist/cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 1 Apr. 2018

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