exhalation

Example Sentences

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While a brick home can resist the powerful exhalation of a wolf, it’s no match for wind-driven rain served up by a wicked storm.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2024

"This means that most of the water added to the air during inhalation is then recovered during exhalation."

From Science Daily • Dec. 14, 2023

The fall of the hammer at 74 million pounds broke the tension, triggering a collective exhalation in the room and a round of applause.

From Reuters • Jun. 27, 2023

The beginning of a new “Succession” season feels like an exhalation, a reprieve.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2023

At dusk through her tears she saw the swift and luminous disks that crossed the sky like an exhalation and she thought that it was a signal of death.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez