windpipe

Example Sentences

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In addition to farm work, she provides for her son day and night, including cooking and cleaning the ventilation tube in his windpipe.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

The stress starts even before the first cut, with intubation - the insertion of a breathing tube into the windpipe.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025

“They cannot operate and cut out the marble in my chest that is laying on my windpipe, and eventually would suffocate me to death,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2024

The measles virus infects the upper respiratory tract where it uses the trachea, or windpipe, as a trampoline to launch and spread through droplets dispersed when an infected person coughs or sneezes.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

Sigemund had locked the two heads together, so that the fire was beaten back down the Dragon's windpipe by the blast of air from its other mouth.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye