How to Use oxygen in a Sentence

oxygen

noun
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  • The loud hum of his oxygen machine echoed through the courtroom.
    — Steve Karnowski, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024
  • There’s very rarely much oxygen for other events in the city to breathe.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Some of the oxygen might stay in the ice or escape into the atmosphere.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Friday of Week 4 was the Tyson-Paul fight, which sucked up the sports viewing oxygen.
    — Alex Sherman, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Nudge one oxygen atom a bit to the left, and the temperature won’t budge.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The oxygen in the submersible was set to run out on Thursday morning.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 22 June 2023
  • Oxygen masks fell in front of some people who had hit their heads on the right part of the oxygen bin.
    — Jason Hahn, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2023
  • When the prosecutors showed that photo in the courtroom, the oxygen left the room.
    — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2023
  • His life hadn’t been easy either, and his sadness was with him like the oxygen in his blood.
    — Trey Burnette, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Valya comes at you head-on and is someone who sucks up the oxygen in the room in a way that’s charismatic.
    — Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The flurry of transactions sucked up all the oxygen around here.
    — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 1 May 2023
  • The part of the heart that receives blood from that artery experiences a lack of oxygen.
    — Vanessa Caceres, Verywell Health, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The race for the White House is sucking up all the oxygen, to echo an old political cliche.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Food is often cut off from oxygen when it's piled up in a landfill.
    — London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Nov. 2024
  • His eyes went wide with fear at the prospect of not having oxygen, even if only for a moment.
    — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Often, shipwrecks remain well preserved due to the lack of oxygen at the bottom of the ocean.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 26 June 2024
  • The food is freeze-dried to pull out all its moisture, then stored in a mylar pouch with an oxygen absorber.
    — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2023
  • And both teams have less than two weeks before the Bears start training camp and suck up all the oxygen on talk radio and in the media.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2023
  • McLees went from only having to wear an oxygen tube at night to having to wear it 24 hours a day.
    — Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Low levels of oxygen in the blood can also cause morning headaches.
    — Sherry Christiansen Updated, Verywell Health, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Because of this, muscles in your legs don’t get enough blood and oxygen even while resting.
    — Francisco J. Rivera Rosario, Health, 22 Feb. 2024
  • What’s strange is that cancer cells do this even when oxygen is abundant.
    — James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The major arteries that supply the heart with blood and oxygen get plugged up with a clot, causing a block in flow.
    — Christopher Desimone, M.d., Ph.d. Mayo Foundation For Medical Education and Research, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The more blood circulation, the more oxygen-rich blood is pumped to muscles.
    — Leslie Hsu Oh, Travel + Leisure, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Soak the garment in hot water and powdered oxygen bleach.
    — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2024
  • When the door opened, the room re-flooded with oxygen, very quickly causing a backdraft-like event.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2024
  • The biggest question, however, is how long will the oxygen last?
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 21 June 2023
  • With a ticking clock, the diver's colleagues race against time to save him before his oxygen runs out.
    — Travis Bean, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Specifically, those proteins are hemoglobin and myoglobin, which carry oxygen to the lungs and muscles through red blood cells.
    — Christina Pérez, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The proprietary set of conditions created by the lasers breaks the bonds between iron and oxygen in the ore without needing carbon or expensive green hydrogen to act like a bouncer that carries the unwanted oxygen away.
    — Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024

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