All 3 Uses
exhalation
in
Fahrenheit 451
(Edited)
- Under the door-sill, a slow, probing sniff, an exhalation of electric steam.
p. 68.8exhalation = air breathed out
- 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 odors of a running man.
p. 127.6
- He smelled the heavy musk-like perfume mingled with blood and the gummed exhalation of the animal's breath,
p. 137.7 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(exhalation) the act of breathing air out of the lungs; or the air breathed out
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, exhalation may reference fumes or even lights in the sky such as a meteor.