exhales

present tense third-person singular of exhale

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of exhales Backed by a twinkling, twanging guitar, Hartzman gently exhales a tune that describes, if not praises, the tougher parts of love. Karly Hartzman, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2025
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Verb
  • Instead, Carrie’s holiday is filled with a revolving door of haughty art dealers and Gen Z queerdos, one of whom clogs the toilet and expels a sea of brown that Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) is forced to clean up.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Earth’s magnetic field radiates from our planet’s poles, arcs deep into space, and creates a vast, magnetic bubble, known as the magnetosphere, that protects us from the solar wind.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • This cul-de-sac at the end of civilization feels like a physical manifestation of the loneliness Carol radiates even before the cataclysmic incident.
    Judy Berman, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The former instantly adds a second layer of security against unwanted guests, and the latter emits an ultra-loud alarm while acting like a door stop wedge, scaring off any stranger who tries to enter your room.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2025
  • On one end, oil refining emits more air pollutants than any other process in the oil industry.
    Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The study might help break down ADHD stigma, which casts any type of neurodivergence as a challenge.
    Liz Regalia, Parents, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Based on Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir, The Chronology of Water casts the actress as a competitive swimmer who comes to terms with an abusive childhood while navigating self-destructive behavior.
    Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Also presented for consideration was In the Moonlight, a 40-episode historical costume drama that releases in Q1 2026 and stars Bao Shangen and Wang Hongyi.
    Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Each quarter, the department releases a report that details injuries and illnesses at exempt facilities.
    Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Everything — from the app that pings the cookie drops to the branding strategy that weaponizes nostalgia and novelty — emanates from this Provo facility.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But the thirty-seventh President looks like a model of restraint when compared with the forty-seventh, and his supposedly incendiary commentary anodyne by contrast to what emanates daily from the current occupant of the White House.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Exhales.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exhales. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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