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
In moments of desperation like these, Paul had access to more portable breathing devices, which used a different sort of technology to the iron lung.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2024
In 2015, his iron lung began to leak.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2024
He was allowed to venture into the neighbourhood in his wheelchair with childhood friends, returning to the iron lung when he was tired.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2024
I’ve never seen an iron lung, but the newspapers had pictures of children in iron lungs, back when people still got polio.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
