iron lung
Example Sentences
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Lane spent the next several months in an iron lung.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024
His parents helped Paul move in with his iron lung, and then he was on his own - with limited help at first, after the carer he had hired failed to show up.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024
When he died recently at the age of 78, Paul had spent more than seven decades using his iron lung, longer than anyone else in history.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024
Mr Richards had come into possession of two iron lung machines at a building clearance and he recalls how one day a paramedic walked in asking: "Is this the place I can find iron lungs?"
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024
You could get polio without knowing how or where, end up in an iron lung without knowing why.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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