Explore Throat through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like pharynx or opening. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Throat in a sentence
Related words
Throat meaning
- The front part of the neck.
- The gullet or windpipe.
- A narrow opening in a vessel.
Using Throat
- The main meaning on this page is: The front part of the neck. | The gullet or windpipe. | A narrow opening in a vessel.
- Useful related words include: pharynx, tubular cavity, opening, passage.
- In the example corpus, throat often appears in combinations such as: the throat, throat and, her throat.
Context around Throat
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Throat
- In this selection, "throat" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sore, strengthen, infected, putting, exercises and muscles stand out and add context to how "throat" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a narrow throat at low and a wider throat at high. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "throat" sits close to words such as accounted, pine and recruiting, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with throat
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Afterwards, he had to take some time off to recover from throat surgery. (13 words)
The bacteria can cause many illnesses, including sore throat (strep throat) and skin sores. (14 words)
After showing off her lingerie, Roberta sucks big dildos that she can deep-throat to the base. (17 words)
Tracheal dig using the thumb The athlete grabs the throat of the opponent with the four fingers on the outside of the throat and the tip of the thumb pressing in and down the hollow of the throat, putting pressure on the trachea. (43 words)
An interesting variation was Ford's VV (Variable Venturi) carburetor, which was essentially a fixed Venturi carburetor with one side of the Venturi hinged and movable to give a narrow throat at low rpm and a wider throat at high rpm. (41 words)
An often used example is "putting a gun to someone's head" (at gunpoint) or putting a "knife under the throat" (at knifepoint or cut-throat) to compel action or the victim gets killed or injured. (36 words)
Arming himself with a knife, which he held to her throat, he said: 'Do you think I won't slice your throat? (22 words)
Example sentences (20)
Tracheal dig using the thumb The athlete grabs the throat of the opponent with the four fingers on the outside of the throat and the tip of the thumb pressing in and down the hollow of the throat, putting pressure on the trachea.
Research suggests that throat exercises may help strengthen throat muscles and prevent them from collapsing during sleep in some people.
Arming himself with a knife, which he held to her throat, he said: 'Do you think I won't slice your throat?
It was announced earlier this month that Mai was forced to withdraw from the competition, which she later revealed was due to an infected throat abscess affecting her tonsils and throat.
Speaking to Good Morning Britain, he said: 'I had two days or so when it was like just razors in your throat, a very, very sore throat.
If someone stabbed my dog in the throat I would find it very difficult to not stab them also in the throat.
I didn't understand it either until a Norwegian friend of mine gave me a salty licorice throat lozenge when I had a cough/head cold/sore throat.
The bacteria can cause many illnesses, including sore throat (strep throat) and skin sores.
An interesting variation was Ford's VV (Variable Venturi) carburetor, which was essentially a fixed Venturi carburetor with one side of the Venturi hinged and movable to give a narrow throat at low rpm and a wider throat at high rpm.
An often used example is "putting a gun to someone's head" (at gunpoint) or putting a "knife under the throat" (at knifepoint or cut-throat) to compel action or the victim gets killed or injured.
Examples of the premonitory urge are the feeling of having something in one's throat, or a localized discomfort in the shoulders, leading to the need to clear one's throat or shrug the shoulders.
Ivan him aches the throat, and me me aches the head) :Transl.: Ivan has sore throat, and I have a headache.
OED and most etymological dictionaries give it a more circuitous origin similar to gullet; from O.Fr. goulet, dim. of goule, "throat, neck," from L. gula "throat,".
A case was registered after a 29-year-old man allegedly slit his own throat, ran behind some people in his locality and injured a police officer in Shahdara’s Nathu Chowk Thursday, officers said.
According to the CDC, at week nineteen, only 1.9% of patient visits were related to respiratory illnesses, including fever, cough, and sore throat.
A criminal complaint alleged that he grabbed another relative by her jacket collar and then by the throat.
After a sleep study and a few ear nose & throat specialist appts – I was booked for surgery to have my adenoids and my tonsils removed.
After showing off her lingerie, Roberta sucks big dildos that she can deep-throat to the base.
After the Reading Railroad fails, the free hand of the self-regulating market reaches for the economy’s throat and nearly chokes it to death.
Afterwards, he had to take some time off to recover from throat surgery.
Common combinations with throat
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the throat 37×
- throat and 31×
- her throat 24×
- sore throat 24×
- his throat 14×
- and throat 11×
- my throat 7×
- throat of 6×
- your throat 6×
- own throat 5×