inhale
IPA: ɪnhˈeɪɫ
noun
- An inhalation.
verb
- (intransitive) To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
- (transitive) To draw air or any form of gas (either in a pure form, or mixed with small particles in form of aerosols/smoke -sometimes stemming from a medicament) into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
- (transitive, figuratively) To eat very quickly.
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Examples of "inhale" in Sentences
- I figure any day I can still wake up and inhale is a win.
- (Although Bill says he didn't inhale, which is pure bullsheet!)
- Next you'll tell me you didn't "inhale" when she offered you a doobie.
- And rather than be a man and admit it, he said whether or not he took drugs depended on the word "inhale".
- The planet where Bill Clinton didn't "inhale" or the one where George W. Bush didn't (allegedly) snort coke off the ass of a Mexican hooker?
- To say you didn’t inhale is to declare yourself to have been the clueless Mr. Jones in Dylan’s famous song and expecting to get credit for it!
- To be fair to Mansbridge and Klein, both quintessentially Canadian, they probably did mean it in the "inhale" sense, as Stephanie said above, and Kim reinforced.
- What they are saying, telling us at this point is this that there -- this is inhalational anthrax, something you actually inhale, which is the more rare of the three -- the three being: cutaneous, going right through the skin, GI, something that you'd actually swallow, or inhalational, as the case is here.
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