Examples of windpipe in a Sentence
She got something stuck in her windpipe.
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Macchiarini developed the world's first artificial windpipe in 2011 using a plastic replica of a trachea that was soaked in a patient's stem cells to prevent the body from rejecting the transplanted replacement organ, per The New York Times.
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Jessica Sager, People.com, 21 June 2025
Have health problems affecting their heart, lungs or windpipe.
—Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 30 May 2025
Early land vertebrates also evolved lungs, and this transformation freed up the gill structures that fish used for breathing to evolve into various useful – and sometimes problematic – neck structures, such as the voice box, tonsils and the little flap that separates the windpipe and esophagus.
—Kent Dunlap, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2025
The neck was shot through crosswise by a bullet, cutting the windpipe in two.
—Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
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Jessica Sager, People.com, 21 June 2025
Have health problems affecting their heart, lungs or windpipe.
—Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 30 May 2025
Early land vertebrates also evolved lungs, and this transformation freed up the gill structures that fish used for breathing to evolve into various useful – and sometimes problematic – neck structures, such as the voice box, tonsils and the little flap that separates the windpipe and esophagus.
—Kent Dunlap, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2025
The neck was shot through crosswise by a bullet, cutting the windpipe in two.
—Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
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“Windpipe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/windpipe. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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windpipe
noun
wind·pipe
ˈwin(d)-ˌpīp 
Medical Definition
windpipe
noun
wind·pipe
ˈwin(d)-ˌpīp
: trachea
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