inhalation

Example Sentences

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In addition to the injured security guard, 30 law enforcement officers were being treated for smoke inhalation, according to Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

Some 2,700 people are diagnosed with the aggressive cancer in the UK each year, with the principal cause being the inhalation of asbestos fibres.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

This approach, the memo said, was critical in identifying harmful substances that “pose exposure hazards via ingestion, inhalation of dust, or through garden/food production.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2026

The research team is continuing its work to better understand how flu spreads through inhalation and under what conditions that transmission is most likely.

From Science Daily • Jan. 11, 2026

The Brahmins and their holy books knew everything, everything; they had gone into everything—the creation of the world, the origin of speech, food, inhalation, exhalation, the arrangement of the senses, the acts of the gods.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse