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How to use respiration in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Respiration means the process of inhaling and exhaling. Example: “A human being burns a certain amount of carbon with each respiration.”

Examples of respiration by meaning

nounAn act of breathing: a single breath.

  • Gowan snored, each respiration choking to a huddle fall, as though he would never breathe again.1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 76

More sentences with respiration

  • A human being burns a certain amount of carbon with each respiration.From the entry burn
  • Some salamanders are both gillless and lungless as adults, relying solely on cutaneous respiration to breathe.From the entry gillless
  • Blackheart results from inadequate oxygen supply for respiration (asphyxiation) of internal tuber tissue.1981, W. J. Hooker, Compendium of Potato Diseases, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry blackheart
  • The infant whose heart is decompensating has a rapid pulse, rapid respirations, and respiratory distress.1967, Virginia Pidgeon, “The Infant with Congenital Heart Disease”, in The American Journal of Nursing, volume 67, number 2, page 291. From the entry decompensate
  • Here, you see, are the lungs in slow or rapid respiration.1913 August, Arthur B[enjamin] Reeve, “The X-Ray ‘Movies’”, in The Dream Doctor (The Craig Kennedy Series), New York, N.Y.; London: Harper…. From the entry visceral
  • Gowan snored, each respiration choking to a huddle fall as though he would never breathe again.1911, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 51. From the entry huddle
  • However, there is no previous research that demonstrates the impact of lung size or the phase of respiration on the CTR.2015 July 8, “Changes in Cross-Sectional Area and Transverse Diameter of the Heart on Inspiratory and Expiratory Chest CT: Correlation…. From the entry confoundable
  • The olfactory epithelium is ventilated during normal respiration and, because crocodylians are intermittent breathers (Chapter 7), particularly by gular pumping.2015, Gordon Grigg, David Kirshner, Biology and Evolution of Crocodylians, →ISBN, page 192. From the entry gular pumping
  • Outgassing of oxygen is strongest when primary production rates are greatest; ingassing is at a maximum during net respiration.2010, Heinrich D Holland, Karl K. Turekian, Isotope Geochemistry. From the entry strong
  • He recognized Cheyne-Stokes tendencies in his respiration—but like everything the symptom served only to turn him in toward his emotion.1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter IX, in Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons…. From the entry Cheyne-Stokes
  • There were no reflexes, no pulse, no respiration or heart-beat.1921, Eden Phillpotts, chapter VIII, in The Grey Room. From the entry barbital
  • Without varying the adjustment of the phrenograph take a tracing while repeatedly interrupting the respiration by holding the nostrils.1904, Winfield Scott Hall, A Manual of Experimental Physiology for Students of Medicine. From the entry phrenograph
  • This glyph's data contains references to energy conversion or respiration; however, it may also be describing a transformation via some untranslatable process.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Thermodynamic Glyph. From the entry untranslatable
  • Nevertheless, it is often necessary to hydrocool fresh tomatoes to remove field heat and rapidly reduce respiration of the internal fruit tissue.1989, Ib Libner Nonnecke, Vegetable Production, →ISBN, page 225. From the entry hydrocool
  • Respirations cannot be recorded by this method, if the subject is a mouth breather (as no air flows by the thermistor in the nose).1967, Nancy J. Barron, “A Ride in the Human Centrifuge”, in American Journal of Nursing, volume 67, number 8, page 1654. From the entry mouth breather
  • The Aerophore was attached as soon as respiration ceased and was continued for three minutes at which time the animal began to breathe spontaneously.1944 February, AH Maloney, “Artificial Respiration and the Revair Aerophore”, in Anesthesia & Analgesia, volume 23, number 1. From the entry aerophore
  • With a stride, the doctor reached the bed, and seizing her arms worked them energetically, applying what I knew to be artificial respiration.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 29. From the entry artificial respiration
  • They are in virtual contact above with the liver on the right side and the spleen on the left and move laggardly and to a slight degree with respiration.1917, Charles Lyman Greene, Medical Diagnosis for the Student and Practitioner, page 732. From the entry laggardly

Meaning of respiration

  1. noun The process of inhaling and exhaling.
  2. noun An act of breathing: a single breath.
  3. noun Any similar process in an organism that lacks lungs that exchanges gases with its environment.

Full definition of respiration

Questions about respiration in a sentence

How do you use respiration in a sentence?
Respiration is used as a noun. For example: “A human being burns a certain amount of carbon with each respiration.”
What is a short sentence with respiration?
“There were no reflexes, no pulse, no respiration or heart-beat.”
What does respiration mean?
Respiration means the process of inhaling and exhaling.

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