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    Use "diaphragm" in a sentence

    diaphragm example sentences

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    1. Beneath the brain tank was a metal diaphragm – a speaker


    2. Taking a deep breath, and fully exhaling, he sucked in another half-breath and then clenched tight on his diaphragm and certain sphincter muscles


    3. I focused on my diaphragm, breathing in the same way as the time I focused on the orange


    4. He had been aiming for the man’s diaphragm, ‘Two inches too low


    5. He grunted, then tapped and prodded and listened and observed and did what doctors used to do and still should – checked my tongue, pulse, breath and sweat odour, skin quality, reflexes, diaphragm, lungs, spine, feet, scalp…


    6. They wanted fear and the War Comic character threw an unexpected solid punch into my guts just below the ribs – calculated to paralyse the diaphragm and have me gasping for breath in agony on the floor


    7. pulled his stomach out of the way and punctured his diaphragm with the


    8. stomach aside and cut a hole in her diaphragm


    9. neighbourhood of the diaphragm of the pupil, it inevitably follows that others


    10. stressed is that we use our chest muscles rather than our diaphragm

    11. This position causes the weight of the body to be put on the diaphragm; this weight eventually


    12. of Jeff's diaphragm made Corey sleepy


    13. Immediately the diaphragm dropped all the way to the bottom of the glass cylinder


    14. There were no sounds in my crying, just a penetrated reflex coming from my diaphragm, and lots and lots of tears


    15. Situated: Below the diaphragm


    16. closing device exposed to the flushing action of water, such as occurs in diaphragm valves


    17. He touched his hand to my stomach below my diaphragm


    18. therefore he did not dare to be careless and he started to gather all his energy to his diaphragm pressure point and then released all twelve folds of his strength with


    19. rubbed Mei Yinxue on her diaphragm and heart? Therefore the task was given to


    20. This allowed the diaphragm to move freely and

    21. Between the diaphragm of the telephone receiver and that of the phonographic microphone is fitted an air chamber of adjustable size, open to the outer atmosphere by a small hole to prevent compression


    22. Afterwards, I was concerned that the bullet had entered from the back, at the very end of the diaphragm


    23. A spasm writhed through her diaphragm


    24. The main respiratory muscle is the diaphragm, with which other


    25. with not trained diaphragm breathing) should do about 60 breathings


    26. breathing from the chest rather than the diaphragm


    27. 22-caliber slug hit a rib, punctured a lung, passed through his diaphragm, and came to rest in his liver


    28. For answer Mr Mulligan, in a gale of laughter at his smalls, smote himself bravely below the diaphragm, exclaiming with an admirable droll mimic of Mother Grogan (the most excellent creature of her sex though 'tis pity she's a trollop): There's a belly that never bore a bastard


    29. He compressed between 2 fingers the flesh circumjacent to a cicatrice in the leftinfracostal region below the diaphragm resulting from a sting inflicted 2 weeks and 3 days previously (23 May 1904) by a bee


    30. She swallowed her panic, and it lodged, heavy and hulking, right above her diaphragm, making it uncomfortable to breathe

    31. Thaniel felt weight settle on to his diaphragm


    32. It was separated by the flooring, which had neither traps nor stairs, and which formed the diaphragm of the building, as it were


    33. Would the just-hatched young sometimes adhere to the feet of birds roosting on the ground and thus get transported? It occurred to me that land-shells, when hybernating and having a membranous diaphragm over the mouth of the shell, might be floated in chinks of drifted timber across moderately wide arms of the sea


    1. diaphragms and instruments, should be selected to satisfy the following objectives


    2. Would anyone today dare propose laws to restrict women in their choice of who they have sex with? If abortion laws’re passed, why not force all child-bearing-aged women do all that’s possible to bear a child every time she has sex? Or be committing a crime for “killing” her monthly egg? Ditto for anyone using condoms, spermicide, diaphragms, BC pills and such


    3. Would anyone today dare propose laws to restrict women in their choice of who they have sex with? If abortion laws are passed, why not force all child-bearing-aged women do all that's possible to bear a child every time she has sex? Or be committing a crime for "killing" her monthly egg? Ditto for anyone using condoms, spermicide, diaphragms, BC pills and such


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    Synonyms for "diaphragm"

    diaphragm stop contraceptive diaphragm pessary midriff

    "diaphragm" definitions

    a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens


    (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration


    a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix


    electro-acoustic transducer that vibrates to receive or produce sound waves