How do you use the word "lung" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "lung" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "lung": Smokers are far more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smokers are. Is there a link between smoking and lung cancer?

Lung Meaning

/ˈlʌŋ/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.

nounCapacity for exercise or exertion; breath.

Sentence Examples

Smokers are far more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smokers are.

Is there a link between smoking and lung cancer?

Her father died of lung cancer.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The X-ray showed a small spot on my left ____, which is a vital respiratory organ.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Smoking can cause serious damage to your ____ and increase the risk of developing many diseases.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English lunge, longe, from Old English lungen, from Proto-Germanic *lunganjō, an enlargement of *lungô (“the light organ, lung”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ-, whence ultimately also light. Cognate with West Frisian long, Dutch long, German Lunge, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk lunge, Swedish lunga, Icelandic lunga, and also Russian лёгкое (ljóxkoje) (lung), Ancient Greek ἐλαφρός (elaphrós, “light in weight”) and perhaps Albanian lungë (“blister, bulge”). Compare Latin levis and Old English lēoht (Modern English light). See also lights (“lungs”). Superseded non-native Middle English pomoun (“lung”), borrowed from Old French poumon, pomon (“lung”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan." — 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

"Afterwards he found that the vague feeling of alarm had spread to the clients of the underground railway, and that the Sunday excursionists began to return from all the South-Western "lungs" - Barnes, Wimbledon, Richmond Park, Kew, and so forth - at unnaturally early hours[.]" — 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 123:

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