iron lung

Example Sentences

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Obsessed with past wrongs, Jabir has been quietly building a time machine, a contraption that looks like a janky iron lung.

From New York Times

She spent three months in an iron lung.

From New York Times

The sculptural contraption, nicknamed “the elephant,” is described in notes as a breathing machine — a kind of mechanical bellows crossed with an iron lung and an industrial loom.

From Los Angeles Times

Those infected in a massive 1952 outbreak had to spend anywhere from weeks to decades in “iron lungs”—negative-pressure ventilation machines that allowed them to breathe.

From Scientific American

Leon knew he had a horse who had a powerful motor and iron lungs.

From New York Times