How to Use oxygen in a Sentence

oxygen

noun
  • This type of stroke occurs when a blood clot blocks the flow of blood and oxygen to the brain.
    — Alyssa Hui, Health.com, 15 Mar. 2022
  • And then there are those of us for whom Kristin Chenoweth is like oxygen.
    — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 7 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • If oxygen is still able to get in or out, food will not keep for very long.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 7 May 2025
  • The smartphone, barely a teenager in 2022, has — like many teenagers — sucked up most of the oxygen in the room.
    — Ted Anthony, ajc, 20 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • Any oxygen in the coffin and in gaps in the soil would be consumed by microbes.
    — William Ralston, Wired, 26 July 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
  • Breathing through the nose helps your body take in more oxygen and can lead to better sleep.
    — Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 21 Mar. 2025
  • 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 suspect showed up in court in a wheelchair and using an oxygen tank.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 8 July 2022
  • Plus there's the oxygen the astronauts will need to breathe during their stay on Mars.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The flurry of transactions sucked up all the oxygen around here.
    — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 1 May 2023
  • The film ticks off the time (five minutes with no oxygen; now 15 minutes…), as the action shifts to the scrambling above.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • The compound will mix with your red blood cells, which carry oxygen.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 24 July 2022
  • 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
  • Paramedics rushed on board and connected the girl to their own oxygen bottle.
    — Mckenzie Funk, ProPublica, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The lack of oxygen to his brain caused irreversible damage and left him in a coma.
    — Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May 2025
  • 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
  • The lack of oxygen to his brain led to severe brain injury, leaving him in a coma and a vegetative state.
    — Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 10 May 2025

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