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

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

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

He offered a hand to Nick, who ignored it and got unsteadily to his feet, rubbing his windpipe and glaring at us like some trapped and wounded beast.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood