exhalation

Example Sentences

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Later in the record, a growling bass clarinet on “I Need You” makes the jazzy beat sound dangerous, like slow exhalations from a sleeping dragon.

From The Wall Street Journal

The inhalations and exhalations of twelve people made a soft, sighing wheeze in the otherwise soundless room.

From Literature

Typical features include frequent deep sighs, rapid breathing, forceful exhalation from the abdomen, or chest breathing without proper diaphragm use, which prevents the lungs from fully expanding.

From Science Daily

At one point you talk about being “cloud makers with every exhalation”.

From Salon

Multiple, overlapping blows of whale exhalations echo off mountains that rise vertically out of glassy water.

From BBC