Sample Sentences for
exhalation
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    Then, from somewhere very near, they heard a soft snorting exhalation, hardly louder than the wind.  (source)
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    Under the door-sill, a slow, probing sniff, an exhalation of electric steam.  (source)
    exhalation = air breathed out
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    ...and then a sudden exhalation of animal breath made us both jump.  (source)
    exhalation = the act of breathing air out of the lungs
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    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)
    exhalation = the act of breathing air out of the lungs
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    Long after she fell asleep, I lay awake in the next room, listening to her peaceful exhalations.†  (source)
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    She let her breath out in a slow exhalation.  (source)
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    More like multiple exhalations that form words.†  (source)
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    Tierney looks almost disgusted by the waste and we get treated to another exasperated exhalation.  (source)
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    Again those quick, pursed exhalations.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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    Steve repositioned himself to push on the wrench with his full body and applied steady pressure with a grunt of exhalation.  (source)
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    As he watched the screen, and sometimes Mae's fingers on the keyboard, his chin got ever-closer to her shoulder, his breath light but audible, his smell, a simple one of soap and banana shampoo, coming to her on the winds of his tiny exhalations.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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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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