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the act of breathing air out of the lungs; or the air breathed outMuch more rarely, exhalation may reference fumes or even lights in the sky such as a meteor.
- She cleared her snorkel with a sharp exhalation.
exhalation = the act of breathing air out of the lungs
- Sometimes she murmurs with each exhalation as she sleeps.
- the inhalation and exhalation of respiration
- Mr Pancks took another long inhalation, another long exhalation, another long sagacious look at Clennam.Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- He drew the first whiff of smoke deep into his lungs and expelled it in a long and lingering exhalation.Jack London -- Martin Eden
- ...and then a sudden exhalation of animal breath made us both jump.Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- A strand of hair has fallen onto her face and it gets sucked into her mouth and back out again with each inhalation and exhalation.Gayle Forman -- Where She Went
- She drew in a deep lungful of breath, held it, allowing her body to warm it, and then breathed out in a long, slow exhalation.Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
- Tierney looks almost disgusted by the waste and we get treated to another exasperated exhalation.Katja Millay -- The Sea of Tranquility
- Steve repositioned himself to push on the wrench with his full body and applied steady pressure with a grunt of exhalation.John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
- She let her breath out in a slow exhalation.Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
- She had not yet woken him and his soft, whistling exhalations blended with winter birdsong that came from somewhere beyond the lawn.Ian McEwan -- Atonement
- He smelled the heavy musk-like perfume mingled with blood and the gummed exhalation of the animal's breath,Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- The beast hardly reacted at all, just shivered and twitched, emitting a slow, liquid sigh, the exhalation of huge and infected lungs.Scott Westerfeld -- The Secret Hour
- The great tents filled like bellows. They softly issued forth exhalations of air that smelled like ancient yellow beasts.Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Under the door-sill, a slow, probing sniff, an exhalation of electric steam.Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- He saw Faber stop up his own breath for fear of drawing that ghost into his own body, perhaps, being contaminated with the phantom exhalations and odours of a running man.Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- ] AMANDA [a long-drawn exhalation]: Ohhhh ... Is it a serious romance, Mr. O'Connor?Tennessee Williams -- The Glass Menagerie
- Here Franny made the mistake of giving a little exhalation of impatience—she had just inhaled cigarette smoke.J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey
- There is only the stilling of the trembling flesh and the slow exhalation of his last breath.Susan Ee -- Angelfall
exhalation = the act of breathing air out of the lungs
exhalation = the act of breathing air out of the lungs; or the air breathed out
exhalation = the act of breathing air out of the lungs; or the air breathed out
exhalation = the act of breathing air out of the lungs; or the air breathed out
exhalation = the act of breathing air out of the lungs; or the air breathed out
exhalation = the act of breathing air out of the lungs; or the air breathed out
exhalation = the act of breathing air out of the lungs; or the air breathed out
exhalations = the act of breathing air out of the lungs; or the air breathed out
exhalation = air breathed out
exhalation = the act of breathing air out of the lungs; or the air breathed out
exhalations = breaths of air
exhalation = air breathed out
exhalations = air breathed out