How to Use lung in a Sentence

lung

noun
  • He filled his lungs with the clean. fresh air.
  • His wife, Cheri Forrester, said the cause was lung cancer.
    Clay Risen, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Eating foods with quercetin also may lower your risk for lung cancer.
    Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The victim was being treated for a stab wound on the left side of his torso and a punctured lung.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The fits were attributed to her weight, which delayed an accurate diagnosis of lung cancer by at least three years.
    Virgie Tovar, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • When the elevator is down, Linwood, who suffers from lung disease, needs as many as three inhalers to get through the day.
    Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • People with heart or lung disease might experience additional symptoms, like chest pain, shortness of breath or fatigue.
    Gabriella Rudy, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • For as long as cigarette smoking has been linked to cancer, stroke, and heart and lung disease, quit-smoking campaigns have urged people to kick the habit as a way of improving their health.
    New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Despite the study findings, Park said that smoking reduction might still impact other health outcomes, such as lowering the risk of lung cancer.
    Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 30 Jan. 2023
  • That potentially toxic material was shooting into patients’ lungs and many consumers sued Philips.
    Byphil Wahba, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
  • In contrast, tobacco’s direct link to lung cancer made warning labels on cigarettes highly effective, Rebbeck explained.
    Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Bill Nye used this catchphrase to describe the stigmatization surrounding prostate cancer, the second most common cancer detected among men behind lung cancer.
    Antonio Ferme, Variety, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The right lung is on the left side and the left lung is on the right side.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Others can cause burns to the skin, eyes, throat, nose, and lungs.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2023
  • In 2015, she was forced to drop out of Dancing with the Stars due to blood clots in both of her lungs.
    Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Blake Treinen is also on the IL because of a bruised lung.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The impact had broken their ribs and burst their lungs.
    Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Harmonies sung at the top of my lungs in the backseat of my parents’ car.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
  • The cause was lung cancer that metastasized to the brain, said his son, Michael Austin.
    Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • This leads to paralysis and then the end of lung function.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Reyes was shot multiple times in an arm, his back and a lung.
    NBC news, 7 May 2023
  • In the hospital, doctors drained two and a half liters of fluid from the wall of his lungs.
    Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2023
  • After surgery to remove part of the damaged lung, the pup spent six nerve-wracking days in the ICU.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Goldman, 25, had stab wounds to his throat, lungs and abdomen.
    Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Key Takeaways Running in extreme cold is hard on the heart and lungs.
    Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 23 Jan. 2024
  • In the early 1950s, King George VI’s lung cancer was kept out of the public domain.
    Karla Adam, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
  • In rare cases, the infection can spread outside the lungs to places such as the skin, bones, brain and spinal cord.
    Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN, 1 May 2023
  • The fatal round entered his right hip and ripped through his liver, lung and heart.
    Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • First Class Heath Robinson, who died of lung cancer at 39.
    Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The clone only lived for a few minutes and died because of a lung defect.
    Theara Coleman, The Week, 22 Feb. 2023

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