17 examples of respirators in sentences

In the early morning we were bombarded with gas shell and had to wear respirators from a quarter to three till four o'clock.

It was left for General Diaz some months later to order the equipment of the whole Italian Army with the British box respirator.

And our men were very short of steel helmets and box respirators, and the boots and clothing of many were in a pitiful condition.

A gag in the form of a respirator covered his mouth.

[devices to sustain respiration] respirator, artificial respirator, heart and lung machine, iron lung; medical devices &c 662. lifeblood; Archeus^; existence &c 1. vivification; vital force; vitalization; revivification &c 163; Prometheus; life to come &c (destiny) 152.

[devices to sustain respiration] respirator, artificial respirator, heart and lung machine, iron lung; medical devices &c 662. lifeblood; Archeus^; existence &c 1. vivification; vital force; vitalization; revivification &c 163; Prometheus; life to come &c (destiny) 152.

In case of gas put on the respirator; otherwise breathe out continuously.

"Ha, ha!" laughs he, and dons that unlovely but priceless gadget, his box-respirator.

A respirator was an excellent thing.

When she saw the Saint over the mantelpiece she cried, and blasted the war that made it necessary to wear them ... respirators all over (the Saint is in armour),and when she saw the flowers, she laughed, and said it seemed like Nothing-on-Earth to have Dusty away.

(2) No, you need not take your respirator with you.

For the rest, there is a brisk trade in anti-gas respirators, "lonely soldiers" are becoming victimised by fair correspondents, and a new day has been added to the weekflag day.

Old French ladies in villages twenty miles back from the line lay all that night hideous in respirators.

They talk as if I had been busy with a feeding-bottle instead of compressing my silly face in a box-respirator.

In addition to the respirators in case of a possible gas attack, supplied by that staff officer with a twinkle in his eye, we needed a steel rod fastened to the back of our necks and running down our spinal columns in order to preserve our dignity.

No time to put on respirators when one explodes.

Then he got up, readjusted his handkerchief-respirator and mumbled that it was cerebro-spinal-something.

17 examples of  respirators  in sentences