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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

As an extreme instance of the former condition, the Hydra has but two organs, an outside which respires, and an inside which digests.

From The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by Gerard, John S.J.

Yet beasts must have a place Beneath our godlike race, Which no mere plant requires Although the plant respires.

From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur

"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

Invisible and subtile particles emanate from odorous bodies, and are brought by the respired air in contact with the terminal filaments of the olfactory nerve, upon which an agreeable or disagreeable impression is produced.

From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Hutchison, Joseph Chrisman

Then when I had completely exhaled the air present in my lungs, I respired this newly compounded air as many times as possible.

From Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2 by Scheele, Carl Wilhelm

Being short-necked and asthmatic, however, he respired principally through this feature; so, perhaps, what it wanted in ornament, it made up in usefulness.”

From The Law and Lawyers of Pickwick A Lecture by Lockwood, Frank, Sir

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

The mitochondrion is thought to have been a respiring bacterium and the chlo­roplast to have been a photosynthesiz­ing relative of the cyanobacteria.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 1, 2013

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