How to Use life-support system in a Sentence

life-support system

noun

• Above the hatch is a backpack with life-support systems.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2023
• The life-support system temporarily replaces the function of the heart and lungs.
  — oregonlive, 9 July 2020
• First of all, simply because the ocean is our planet's main life-support system.
  — Nell Lewis, CNN, 3 May 2021
• News reports asked how much oxygen might be left in the submersible’s life-support system.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 10 June 2024
• Yet it could be argued the GT R is merely an engine mount life-support system.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
• The crew will stay in orbit for three months, during which the life-support system and maintenance will be tested.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 19 Nov. 2021
• The life-support system that Gatens spent nearly a decade working on would never be used for Freedom.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020
• Nelson said that will also allow more time to work on the crew capsule’s life-support system.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Dec. 2024
• Van Cleave stressed the life-support system is associated with a lot of risks.
  — Jessica Van Egeren, Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2024
• And there would likely need to be some sort of redundancy, meaning if one part of the life-support system failed, a backup would kick in.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2022
• These life-support systems make Earth resilient and stable.
  — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024
• An onboard life-support system will allow astronauts to survive in their suits for up to eight hours.
  — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2024
• But in this amusing, pointed romp, Grandad Claxon is little more than a tuft of hair in a high-tech wheelchair, a rolling life-support system that bleeps and hisses and leaks.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• But now actor Mark Ruffalo is on a mission to preserve the church and save its place as a life-support system for the community.
  — Jada Clarke, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
• Getting him out damages a life-support system, and the ensuing issues cause a moral conundrum about who lives and who dies.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2021
• Though the museum has generators to power life-support systems for its fish and wildlife, the power never went out.
  — Chabeli Herrera, Andres Viglucci, Carli Teproff and Michelle Kaufman, miamiherald, 13 Sep. 2017
• Dive protocols required that Vescovo check in with the surface every fifteen minutes and announce his depth and heading and the status of his life-support system.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 10 May 2020
• The heating of Earth's climatic life-support system has been caused by our emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which reached a record high in 2024.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
• The power grid is modern society’s life-support system.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2021
• First introduced in Spider-Man comics in the 1980s, Madame Web is a blind clairvoyant woman who lived in a complex life-support system resembling a spider web.
  — Kevin Slane, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022
• Anyone who dares to venture past our world’s upper atmosphere will die painfully without a life-support system.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2020
• Dad is his final days, hooked up to a life-support system in the living room and being cared for by a longtime housekeeper (Kimberly Guerrero) and a friendly hospice worker (Gilbert Owuor).
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2022
• Faced with declining public interest and the revelation that the spacecraft’s life-support system will fail en route, NASA chooses to pull the three-man crew from the vessel just moments before launch.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2024
• The utter lack of climate and lower gravity means the two worlds require vastly different life-support system designs.
  — Neel V. Patel, Slate Magazine, 14 Dec. 2017
• Launched in 2000, the Zvezda Service Module provides living quarters and performs some life-support system functions.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024
• And for the first time ever, some of the components in an astronaut life-support system will be designed by artificial intelligence.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 29 June 2020
• The entire interior of the vehicle emulates the real spacecraft, complete with flight software and a life-support system.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 2018
• While the small spacecraft in which astronauts fly today carry food and oxygen as consumables and use a simply chemical method to remove carbon dioxide from the air, this type of life-support system will not swing on a colony.
  — David Warmflash, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2014
• Doctors at the Liverpool hospital where Alfie is being treated switched off his life-support systems on Monday.
  — Eli Meixler, Time, 25 Apr. 2018
• There is no succession plan, just a life-support system for the post-Wintour era.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 May 2026