LUNG in a Sentence

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92 example sentences for LUNG, such as:

1. I let my lungs fill with the scented air.
2. These fine particles penetrate deep into the lungs.
3. The eyes,stomach,heart,and lungs are organs of the body.
4. I opened the window and filled my lungs with cool fresh air.
5. She underwent an operation on a tumour in her left lung last year.

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 Meanings and Examples of LUNG
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lung
 n.  either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood
Classic Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
1  "Too high for the lung," he said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
2  "It is my lung," said Boxer in a weak voice.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
3  It was in the early morning stillness, when his muscles were swinging to their familiar task and his lungs expanding with long draughts of mountain air, that Ethan did his clearest thinking.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
4  Mrs. Merriwether's breath went out of her lungs as explosively as though she had been punched.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  All the breath went out of Scarlett's lungs in one gasp of horror before rage swept her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  The torturing stays no longer pinched her waist and she could breathe deeply and quietly to the bottom of her lungs and her abdomen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  Automatically, she dodged behind the curtain and peered fascinated at him through the dim folds of the cloth, so startled that the breath went out of her lungs with a gasp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  For a moment, the breath went out of Scarlett's lungs in a sickening gasp and she could only stare at the fat old lady who was so obviously pleased at the effect of her statement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
9  That is true enough in a sense; but your lungs are thinking about the air, if you are not.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
10  Yes; but I have tried to remain amphibious: it's all right as long as one's lungs can work in another air.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
11  The moral oppression had produced a physical craving for air, and he strode on, opening his lungs to the reverberating coldness of the night.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
12  Pumped my lungs chuck-full of Rocky Mountain air.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  Look ye now, young man, thy lungs are a sort of soft, d'ye see; thou dost not talk shark a bit.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
14  But in brief, they are these: lungs and warm blood; whereas, all other fish are lungless and cold blooded.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
15  But owing to his marked internal structure which gives him regular lungs, like a human being's, the whale can only live by inhaling the disengaged air in the open atmosphere.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
16  She was taken to the hospital with broken ribs and a punctured lung.
17  The test should identify which smokers are most prone to develop lung cancer.
18  Anyone with heart, lung or circulation problems should seek medical advice before flying.
19  She underwent an operation on a tumour in her left lung last year.
20  Our results confirm the relation between birth weight and lung function measurements reported in other studies.
21  In February, a jury ordered the company to pay 51 million dollars to a Marlboro smoker with terminal lung cancer.
22  One side of the corral was a high wall, and in the enclosure on the other side of the wall were the lung patients.
23  Studies have shown that toxins in secondhand smoke can cause lung and nasal cancer in dogs.
24  The forest, which is city's green lung is also a wildlife sanctuary and the leopard natural habitat.
25  In breathing the chest muscles expand the rib cage and allow air to be sucked into the lungs.
26  The eyes,stomach,heart,and lungs are organs of the body.
27  He had kidney cancer, with secondary tumours in the brain and lungs.
28  I let my lungs fill with the scented air.
29  These fine particles penetrate deep into the lungs.
30  I opened the window and filled my lungs with cool fresh air.