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inhale

[in-hayl] / ɪnˈheɪl /


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Breathing techniques - take a long breath through your nose, add a second inhale at the top and release it with a long sigh through your mouth.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

His staff focus on efforts to prevent illness caused by "the unhealthy air people inhale every day".

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

We inhale and ingest them from almost everything we touch, breathe, eat and drink.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Did he inhale too deeply the vapors of power?

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

I press my face to the fabric and inhale, to see if it still smells like her.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

At an Alaskan research station she inhales the scent of oxidizing permafrost: “Pleistocene-aged grass, mammoth bones, and thousands and thousands of years of microbial cells.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

With other hantaviruses, infections occur when a person is exposed to or inhales the dried droppings, urine or saliva of infected rodents.

From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026

"A child playing on the floor inhales even more because the concentrations of particles are greater closer to the ground."

From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 2024

When it goes sideways, the kid inhales deeply, trains a hard glare on Asher, and says, “I curse you.”

From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2023

He inhales and leans in a little bit.

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi

If inhaled, some of these extremely small particles can penetrate deep into the lungs.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

"It's like when there were no masks. When they appeared at KEK, it was too late because we had already inhaled it," he said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Mom—who has inhaled every Philippa Gregory novel, and whose superpower is the ability to relate any topic back to Henry VIII’s wives—corrected him instantly: “Claude, Katherine is with a K.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Doing so will increase the likelihood of heavy metal particles, which can carry lung irritants and carcinogens, being spread and inhaled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Anya sucked in a deep breath, let it out, took another one, let it out, and then inhaled sharply one more time.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

I look forward to inhaling “Fudge” many times on my stereo.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

Wind can then carry these radioactive particles through the environment, where inhaling them presents serious health hazards.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

While handling the moldy dishes, she experienced “stomach pain, a headache and a strange sensation in her nose, which she believed was caused by inhaling the fuzzy mold,” the union’s complaint said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

That's when cold water can cause a sudden heart attack by increasing your heart rate, or making you gasp for breath and inhaling water directly into the lungs, leading to drowning.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

It was a major breach of safety protocol that risked the workers swallowing radioactive dust with their food or inhaling it while they ate.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland


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