Exhale
verb
To breathe out air or smoke from your lungs.
After a long day at work, she sat down and exhaled deeply.
Often appears as...
- exhale deeply
- exhale slowly
verb
To give off smoke or vapor.
The plant exhales a fragrant vapor.
Often appears as...
- exhale vapor
- exhale smoke
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To express a feeling or quality through one's behavior or appearance.
The room exhaled a warm, welcoming charm.
Often appears as...
- exhale charm
- exhale peace
Usage tips
Poetic
verb
To breathe out air or smoke from your lungs.
After a long day at work, she sat down and exhaled deeply.
Often appears as...
- exhale deeply
- exhale slowly
verb
To give off smoke or vapor.
The plant exhales a fragrant vapor.
Often appears as...
- exhale vapor
- exhale smoke
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To express a feeling or quality through one's behavior or appearance.
The room exhaled a warm, welcoming charm.
Often appears as...
- exhale charm
- exhale peace
Usage tips
Poetic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Relief
Used when someone feels relaxed or relieved after a stressful situation.
He finished the race and exhaled in relief.
Pro Tip 2/3Releasing Tension
Suggests letting go of built-up stress or emotion.
After hearing the good news, she exhaled her pent-up anxiety.
Pro Tip 3/3Life Rhythm
Inhale and exhale are often used metaphorically to describe the ups and downs of life.
Life is a cycle of inhaling challenges and exhaling triumph.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Relief
Used when someone feels relaxed or relieved after a stressful situation.
He finished the race and exhaled in relief.
Pro Tip 2/3Releasing Tension
Suggests letting go of built-up stress or emotion.
After hearing the good news, she exhaled her pent-up anxiety.
Pro Tip 3/3Life Rhythm
Inhale and exhale are often used metaphorically to describe the ups and downs of life.
Life is a cycle of inhaling challenges and exhaling triumph.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Relief
Used when someone feels relaxed or relieved after a stressful situation.
He finished the race and exhaled in relief.
Pro Tip 2/3Releasing Tension
Suggests letting go of built-up stress or emotion.
After hearing the good news, she exhaled her pent-up anxiety.
Pro Tip 3/3Life Rhythm
Inhale and exhale are often used metaphorically to describe the ups and downs of life.
Life is a cycle of inhaling challenges and exhaling triumph.
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Video examples
Steve Truglia: A leap...
you need pressure breathing, which is where you're wearing a G suit. This is him in his old rock-and-roll jeans there, pushing him in, those turned up jeans. You need a pressure suit. You need a pressure breathing system with a G suit that squeezes you, that helps you to breathe in and helps you to exhale.
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A forgotten Space Age...
and exhale the carbon out in the form of carbon dioxide, which would then be captured by the microbes, to create a nutritious crop, which then would be exhaled in the form of carbon dioxide by the astronauts. So in this way, a closed-loop carbon cycle is created. So why is this important?
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Resilient people,...
observed history now can you imagine just the color shift from a white reflective surface reflecting back 90% of heat to a slightly darker liquid surface corresponds to roughly 300 exhales of new heat into the atmosphere that's more than the annual consumption
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Why do whales sing? -...
when we exhale, causing them to vibrate. Baleen whales have a U-shaped fold of tissue between their lungs and their large inflatable organs called laryngeal sacs. We don't know this for sure because it's essentially impossible to observe the internal organs
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Pythons 101 PIPE National...
Pythons' long bodies help the reptiles kill by way of constriction. They wrap their bodies around prey and every time the prey exhales, the python squeezes more tightly. This disrupts the prey's respiration and blood flow inevitably leading to its death.
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How do dogs "see" with...
And unlike our clumsy way of breathing in and out through the same passage, dogs exhale through slits at the side of their nose, creating swirls of air that help draw in new odor molecules and allow odor concentration to build up over mulitple sniffs.
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New thinking on the...
has to be laid alongside what the people say. This challenge is part of the fabric of our whole civilization. CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally.
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How Close Are We to...
you're feeling that road rage take a deep breath inhale exhale and know that the flying cars are coming soon
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Art made of the air we...
Ready? In. And out. That air that you just exhaled, you enriched a hundred times in carbon dioxide.
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Letting Go With Lemurs -...
inhaling and exhaling it's a miraculous process
Video examples
Steve Truglia: A leap...
you need pressure breathing, which is where you're wearing a G suit. This is him in his old rock-and-roll jeans there, pushing him in, those turned up jeans. You need a pressure suit. You need a pressure breathing system with a G suit that squeezes you, that helps you to breathe in and helps you to exhale.
Video examples
A forgotten Space Age...
and exhale the carbon out in the form of carbon dioxide, which would then be captured by the microbes, to create a nutritious crop, which then would be exhaled in the form of carbon dioxide by the astronauts. So in this way, a closed-loop carbon cycle is created. So why is this important?
Video examples
Resilient people,...
observed history now can you imagine just the color shift from a white reflective surface reflecting back 90% of heat to a slightly darker liquid surface corresponds to roughly 300 exhales of new heat into the atmosphere that's more than the annual consumption
Video examples
Why do whales sing? -...
when we exhale, causing them to vibrate. Baleen whales have a U-shaped fold of tissue between their lungs and their large inflatable organs called laryngeal sacs. We don't know this for sure because it's essentially impossible to observe the internal organs
Video examples
Pythons 101 PIPE National...
Pythons' long bodies help the reptiles kill by way of constriction. They wrap their bodies around prey and every time the prey exhales, the python squeezes more tightly. This disrupts the prey's respiration and blood flow inevitably leading to its death.
Video examples
How do dogs "see" with...
And unlike our clumsy way of breathing in and out through the same passage, dogs exhale through slits at the side of their nose, creating swirls of air that help draw in new odor molecules and allow odor concentration to build up over mulitple sniffs.
Video examples
New thinking on the...
has to be laid alongside what the people say. This challenge is part of the fabric of our whole civilization. CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally.
Video examples
How Close Are We to...
you're feeling that road rage take a deep breath inhale exhale and know that the flying cars are coming soon
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Art made of the air we...
Ready? In. And out. That air that you just exhaled, you enriched a hundred times in carbon dioxide.
Video examples
Letting Go With Lemurs -...
inhaling and exhaling it's a miraculous process
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Quote examples
Lee Haney
American Athlete
I've watched a lot of guys through the years, and they hold their breath until they finally win The Big One, thinking then they can exhale and chill out. You have to breathe through life, man. Have fun.
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Al Gore
American Vice President
CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
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Banks
American Musician
I've felt real pain, and sometimes I channel the exhale coming out of that to write, and those are the songs that give me the most power and the most strength.
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Cliff Burton
American Musician
As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.
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Mohsin Hamid
Pakistani Writer
Which is stronger, politics or love?' is like asking, 'Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?' They are two sides of the same thing.
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Marshall Goldsmith
American Coach
Gratitude is not a limited resource, nor is it costly. It is abundant as air. We breathe it in but forget to exhale.
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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Japanese Actor
You release more toxins from the body through a deep exhale than you do from anything else.
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Ryan Reynolds
Canadian Actor
When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.
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Zach Anner
American Comedian
Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Austrian Actor
I have inhaled, exhaled everything.
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Lee Haney
American Athlete
I've watched a lot of guys through the years, and they hold their breath until they finally win The Big One, thinking then they can exhale and chill out. You have to breathe through life, man. Have fun.
Quote examples
Al Gore
American Vice President
CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
Quote examples
Banks
American Musician
I've felt real pain, and sometimes I channel the exhale coming out of that to write, and those are the songs that give me the most power and the most strength.
Quote examples
Cliff Burton
American Musician
As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.
Quote examples
Mohsin Hamid
Pakistani Writer
Which is stronger, politics or love?' is like asking, 'Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?' They are two sides of the same thing.
Quote examples
Marshall Goldsmith
American Coach
Gratitude is not a limited resource, nor is it costly. It is abundant as air. We breathe it in but forget to exhale.
Quote examples
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Japanese Actor
You release more toxins from the body through a deep exhale than you do from anything else.
Quote examples
Ryan Reynolds
Canadian Actor
When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.
Quote examples
Zach Anner
American Comedian
Humour allows people to exhale a little.
Quote examples
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Austrian Actor
I have inhaled, exhaled everything.
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