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exhalation
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  • Then, from somewhere very near, they heard a soft snorting exhalation, hardly louder than the wind.  (source)
  • 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.  (source)
  • ...and then a sudden exhalation of animal breath made us both jump.  (source)
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  • Under the door-sill, a slow, probing sniff, an exhalation of electric steam.  (source)
    exhalation = air breathed out
  • Long after she fell asleep, I lay awake in the next room, listening to her peaceful exhalations.†  (source)
  • 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.  (source)
    exhalation = the act of breathing air out of the lungs
  • Their remains, suffered to decay by piecemeal, filled the air with deadly exhalations, and added tenfold to the devastation.†  (source)
  • She let her breath out in a slow exhalation.  (source)
  • Again those quick, pursed exhalations.†  (source)
  • Steve repositioned himself to push on the wrench with his full body and applied steady pressure with a grunt of exhalation.  (source)
  • Though the exhibition was moderately crowded, still it had the sedate, meandering feel of a backwater, a certain vacuum-sealed calm: long sighs and extravagant exhalations like a room full of students taking a test.†  (source)
  • Tierney looks almost disgusted by the waste and we get treated to another exasperated exhalation.  (source)
  • Nothing can escape—not the person's breath exhalations, evaporating sweat, body fluids, nothing.†  (source)
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The exhalations, whizzing in the air Give so much light that I may read by them.  (source)
exhalations = meteors
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