How to Use hyperventilation in a Sentence

hyperventilation

noun

• 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
• Biden’s use of the wrong word caused a certain hyperventilation about his cognition.
  — Jeff Robbins, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2024
• 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
• But such extended breath-holding with pre-dive hyperventilation can be very dangerous and even deadly.
  — Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• Ten might cause immediate hyperventilation among coaches whose job status is hanging by a thread.
  — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Still, much of the media hyperventilation that greeted the close result was unwarranted.
  — Charlemagne | Strasbourg, The Economist, 16 July 2019
• 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
• Some allies, for example, might downplay or dismiss the claim, to present it as media hyperventilation about a candidate who uses punchy rhetoric.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
• 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
• Carbon dioxide tests by the researchers indicate that hyperventilation is not likely.
  — Ferris Jabr, Scientific American, 29 July 2010
• The hyperventilation can cause lightheadedness and in rare cases loss of consciousness, which has contributed to drowning deaths.
  — Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2026
• These practices often involve periods of hyperventilation (heavy fast breathing) mixed with breath-holding.
  — Bree Grant, refinery29.com, 7 June 2024
• While the plane was able to safely land, and no one was seriously injured, 12 people went to the hospital and were treated for hyperventilation.
  — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2025
• 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
• This is not hyperbole or hyperventilation.
  — James Speyer, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026
• 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
• 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 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
• There’s been much hyperventilation by Liccardo opponents about where Padilla is getting the money.
  — Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
• 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
• 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
• For those in the outside world prone to hyperventilation, Sunday’s loss provided a trigger with no shortage of extreme reactions and suggestions to combat the misery.
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Perhaps tearing originally grew out of a physiological reflex that restored moisture to the eyes and nasal passages after they had been dried out by the pressure of wincing or the hyperventilation of arousal.
  — Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
• Within an hour, the hyperventilation in Washington had reached Defcon 1.
  — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 15 May 2017
• 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
• Shallow water blackout, however, occurs in people who practice pre-submersion hyperventilation.
  — Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023