respire

Tiny pores on a leaf’s underside are arranged to take in carbon dioxide and respire water, allowing the plant to transform sunlight into energy.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2021

On average, pregnant women suffer twice as many bites, as they respire 20% more carbon dioxide, and have a marginally elevated body temperature.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2019

But at night, plants and animals respire and take away too much oxygen, said the study’s lead author, Denise Breitburg, a marine ecologist at SERC.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2015

Instead of popping up to the surface like whales, sharks respire by forcing oxygenated water over their gill slits.

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2014

The usual way of looking at them is as enslaved creatures, captured to supply ATP for cells unable to respire on their own, or to provide carbohydrate and oxygen for cells unequipped for photosynthesis.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

The environment in which the animal lives greatly determines how an animal respires.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

"Culture is his air and water; he respires ideas, and whistles and hums as he does so," Leonard wrote.

From US News ● Sep. 18, 2015

A rat respires 100 to 200 times a minute, a cat 20 to 30 times, an adult human 16 to 24 times,* a horse 6 to 10 times.

From Time Magazine Archive

Quell'd by his fame, the furious sects accord, Europe respires beneath his guardian sword; Batavia's states to independence soar, And curb the cohorts of Iberian power.

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel

The air respires the pure Elysian sweets In which she breathes, and from her looks descend The glories of the summer.

From The Poetaster by Jonson, Ben

"These associations may help explain why some organic molecules remain protected in soils while others are more vulnerable to being broken down and respired by microbes."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2026

As oxygen from the environment combines with the sugars in patats, it gets respired from the roots as carbon dioxide and water.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2021

My good friend," said Porthos, after having respired vigorously, "we are arrived, it seems.

From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre

Fat is thus an abnormal production, resulting from a disproportion of carbon in the food to that of the oxygen respired by the lungs or absorbed by the skin.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

I fancied that I could even hear the deep “roust” she made as she respired the air, without which she cannot exist any more than animals of the land or air.

From Peter the Whaler by Austin, Henry

When respiring animals were only a few cells thick, they could count on diffusion to satisfy their needs for oxygen.

From Scientific American ● May 6, 2019

Their role as predators can even help with carbon dynamics, keeping carbon locked up in marine sediments, or by controlling the amount of respiring biomass in our seas.

From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2018

Roberts’s abdominal cavity looked like the inside of a mossy, yellow cave lit up by miners’ headlamps; vasculature appeared like streaks of mineral ore, the liver like a respiring troglobite.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 19, 2016

As carbon pours into the bucket through photosynthesis, it constantly leaks out through other processes, mostly decomposition and respiring plants and microbes.

From US News ● Apr. 18, 2011

First, when Martian soil was mixed with a sterile organic soup from Earth, something in the soil chemically broke down the soup—almost as if there were respiring microbes metabolizing a food package from Earth.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan