windpipe

Example Sentences

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With the pressure inside my throat from the tube and the pressure outside the windpipe from my thyroid, maybe there was some damage to the nerves.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026

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

It entails wrapping both arms around a choking victim from behind, making a fist just over the victim’s navel and thrusting upward sharply five times to eject an object that is obstructing the windpipe.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2023

Intubation, the process of placing a breathing tube into the windpipe - which should only take a few minutes - did not occur for 18 minutes.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2023

Within seconds I was soaking wet; air gushed down my windpipe.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane