EXHALING Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

exhaling

verb

Definition of exhaling next

present participle of exhale

as in expelling

to let or force out of the lungs before answering, the suspect exhaled a cloud of cigarette smoke

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as in radiating

to throw or give off the lilacs were exhaling a sweet fragrance that virtually filled the room

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Recent Examples of exhaling Curry, wearing a bulky wrap around his knee, leaned back and took a long, deep breath before exhaling as the game tipped off. —

Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2026 Much of Electrical Field of Love has a loose, improvisatory feel, with Gibbs and Lewis laying down thick, burrowing grooves, Ross adding textured flair, and Muldrow exhaling drawn-out, chantlike phrases or compact, laser-like screams on top of it all. —

Reed Jackson, SPIN, 30 Mar. 2026 Yeah, exorcising that demon of just kind of singing about it, putting it on paper, and then just kind of exhaling and let that go, that's an important process. —

Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 13 Mar. 2026 To cope, Sesko practices box-breathing to calm himself, a technique involving four four-second phases of breathing in, holding your breath before exhaling, and then holding again. —

Ian Irving, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026 Delia accompanies me down to the first floor again, exhaling in a heavy whisper, such a catastrophe, more to herself than to me. —

Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026 The play left Doncic holding his hands together in front of his chest and exhaling in relief. —

Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026 Gently tilting the pelvis stretches tight lower back muscles, while exhaling engages your deep core muscles to stabilize your spine. —

Jakob Roze, Health, 14 Oct. 2025 Try slowly inhaling for a count of 4 and exhaling for a count of 8, lengthening the exhale. —

Kate Pitts, Outside, 30 Sep. 2025

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Their boneless design also enables unique movement — from crawling along the ocean floor to jetting through water by expelling it rapidly from their bodies.

— Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2026
No direct hits are required; shock waves from a jet can ripple across hundreds of thousands of light-years to churn galactic gas into stars or to extinguish star formation entirely by expelling those gas reservoirs into intergalactic space.

— Lee Billings, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2026