as in to devour
to swallow or eat greedily
inhaled the doughnuts so quickly that you would have missed it if you blinked
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Recent Examples of inhale
Furthermore, because of their smaller size, ultrafine particles can follow the airflow and get deep into the lungs when inhaled.
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Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
While the silica sand itself is not dangerous, the mining process releases fine particulate matter, including crystalline silica, a carcinogen that is extremely easy to inhale.
—Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024
With this technique, people inhale, hold their breath, exhale, and hold breath again for equal intervals, such as three or four seconds, repeating the cycle for several minutes.
—Matt Fuchs, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
The fungus releases its spores when the dirt and dust are disturbed, and infection can occur when a person inhales these spores.
—Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 15 Nov. 2024
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Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
While the silica sand itself is not dangerous, the mining process releases fine particulate matter, including crystalline silica, a carcinogen that is extremely easy to inhale.
—Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024
With this technique, people inhale, hold their breath, exhale, and hold breath again for equal intervals, such as three or four seconds, repeating the cycle for several minutes.
—Matt Fuchs, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
The fungus releases its spores when the dirt and dust are disturbed, and infection can occur when a person inhales these spores.
—Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 15 Nov. 2024
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Astronomers Reveal First Image Of The Black Hole At Center Of The Milky Way By Tom Howarth Science Reporter (Nature) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled the closest-ever look at a monster black hole devouring its cosmic surroundings.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
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While pimento cheese, gumbo, and Grandma’s buttermilk biscuits will always be delicious and devoured down to the very last crumb no matter where they're served, good food is certainly more fun to eat in a beautiful space.Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 2 Dec. 2024
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Now revitalized, Madeline confronts Helen, who has also gulped the elixir, and wild smackdowns and realignments follow.Frank Rizzo, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
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With its 33 Raptor engines gulping 40,000 pounds of liquid oxygen and methane fuel per second, the Super Heavy-Starship majestically climbed away to the east over the Gulf of Mexico atop a brilliant plume of white-hot flame and a churning cloud of exhaust.William Harwood, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2024
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But this is a Hollywood biopic that attempts to cram a very intense four-year period of history into a two-hour-and-21-minute movie.Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
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This tendency to cram everything in also comes at the expense of nearly all of the characters, with the exception of Chalamet’s Dylan.Radhika Seth, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Inhale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhale. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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