How to Use hyperventilation in a Sentence

hyperventilation

noun

• The Mutus had to stop several times on their way home to console Constantin, who bucked and wailed to the point of hyperventilation.
  — Caitlin Dickerson, New York Times, 16 June 2019
• And Link, to her credit and with great help from the honest Zacharias, avoids the trap of hyperventilation or bathos, into which movies based on Tolstoy often sink.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• Powell told The Ringer that breathing in the face masks for pilots required pushing out and sucking in air nearly to the point of hyperventilation.
  — Vulture, 31 May 2022
• Try to prevent hyperventilation and holding your breath for too long, which can lead to blacking out and drowning.
  — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 31 May 2022
• And then there was the hyperventilation online over Mr. Rubio’s sleek new boots — a $135, high-heeled, black leather pair of Florsheims given to him by his wife for Christmas.
  — Jeremy W. Peters and Michael Barbaro, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2016
• Perhaps that sounds boring to you, so it’s high time for some hyperventilation.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 1 Feb. 2018
• In cyclic hyperventilation, a person breathes in deeply and out quickly — the inhalations are much longer than the exhalations.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
• Many were comatose, and those who were conscious had bouts of nausea, vomiting, and hyperventilation.
  — Carrie Arnold, National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2020
• The cold water can also lead to hyperventilation, which increases your chances of drowning.
  — Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2020
• The reaction is marked by fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, headache, rapid heart rate, low blood pressure, hyperventilation, flushing, and pain.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2023
• Hey, a rapidly aging LeBron James is just one unlikely victory away from being young again, a plot twist that would spawn a funnel cloud of hyperventilation.
  — Jeff Miller, Orange County Register, 6 June 2017
• The autophobe dreads seclusion to the point of hyperventilation; the eremophobe fears isolation to the point of nausea, sweating, dizziness, even fainting.
  — Sarah Fay, Longreads, 17 Mar. 2020
• Still, much of the media hyperventilation that greeted the close result was unwarranted.
  — Charlemagne | Strasbourg, The Economist, 16 July 2019
• According to the Daegu Fire Department, 12 people suffered minor injuries from hyperventilation and nine of them were sent to hospitals in Daegu.
  — Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 29 May 2023
• But such extended breath-holding with pre-dive hyperventilation can be very dangerous and even deadly.
  — Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• The first is controlled hyperventilation, in which the participant performs 30 cycles of breathing.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 25 Jan. 2020
• Ten might cause immediate hyperventilation among coaches whose job status is hanging by a thread.
  — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2022
• The aspirin regimen suggested by national authorities was enough to increase the amount of fluid in lungs and cause hyperventilation.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2020
• To get relief, Marisa relies on a rescue inhaler and also uses the Butekyo method, which is a breathing technique that focuses on consciously reducing a person’s breathing rate to avoid hyperventilation.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 14 Nov. 2018
• One final caveat: For all the media hyperventilation, there may not be much as the center of this Russia investigation, or perhaps not much more than activities involving Michael Flynn.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 19 May 2017
• Coping is equal parts distraction — Squirrel! — militant adherence to public health protocols — hyperventilation and/or deep cleansing breaths while reciting the 3rd Step Prayer — and living in the m.o.m.e.n.t.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2020
• Carbon dioxide tests by the researchers indicate that hyperventilation is not likely.
  — Ferris Jabr, Scientific American, 29 July 2010
• Even a 10% fall in the major indexes reliably increases the public blood pressure and induces media hyperventilation.
  — William J. Bernstein, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2019
• Within an hour, the hyperventilation in Washington had reached Defcon 1.
  — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 15 May 2017
• With the trajectory now reversed, Leavel should have been granted the opportunity on the Nederlander stage for some all-out tyrannical hyperventilation.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2022
• Some actors, tasked with the portrayal of traumatic encounters amid personal loss, might tend toward sobbing or hyperventilation.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
• The Lamaze breathing used by many pregnant women has been shown to increase pain toleranceand aid relaxation, while there have been many reports of hallucinations and feelings of euphoria following hyperventilation.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2017
• This is repeated at a steady pace thirty times, creating similar tingling sensations or light-headedness to hyperventilation.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 25 Jan. 2020
• Another concern is the possibility of hyperventilation when navigating demanding terrain or that ordinary breathing could disrupt the sniff controller's code and crash the wheelchair.
  — Ferris Jabr, Scientific American, 29 July 2010
• But another honorable function is to disentangle it from rapacious marketplace hyperventilation, so that it can be clearly seen.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 20 Mar. 2018

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