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
Health and Safety Concerns Proper ventilation is vital when using bleach because bleach fumes can be harmful if inhaled.
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Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2025
Competitive freediving events demand that participants inhale nothing but normal air prior to a dive.
—Sean Williams, Outside, 27 Oct. 2025
Inhale the Oils Using the Dry Evaporation Method The dry evaporation method is another way to inhale essential oils indirectly but effectively.
—Emily Brown, Verywell Health, 21 Oct. 2025
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia — fear of long words (The longest word found in major English dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a 45-letter word describing a lung disease caused by inhaling fine silica dust.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
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Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2025
Competitive freediving events demand that participants inhale nothing but normal air prior to a dive.
—Sean Williams, Outside, 27 Oct. 2025
Inhale the Oils Using the Dry Evaporation Method The dry evaporation method is another way to inhale essential oils indirectly but effectively.
—Emily Brown, Verywell Health, 21 Oct. 2025
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia — fear of long words (The longest word found in major English dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a 45-letter word describing a lung disease caused by inhaling fine silica dust.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
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Sacramento State’s 6-foot-11, 270-pound senior craves the opportunity to devour defenders in the lane with post moves, or a pass to an open shooter after a double-team, or to thunder-dunk on the run as one regal finisher.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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The Tyranids represent man's fear of the natural world, nature's inexorable ability to overwhelm, decay, and devour all of man's greatest works.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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What's more, while virtually all VTOLs being developed these days are electric, the Janus-1 is powered by a turboshaft engine that gulps n' burns diesel, kerosene or Jet A fuel.—
Ben Coxworth
October 21,
New Atlas,
21 Oct. 2025
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Perhaps a whale or a shark would arrive to gulp down the passengers, one by one.—
Catherine Lacey,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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The Second Division table showed Glossop were bottom at the time and Arsenal top, and the big crowd cramming into the small ground in the Derbyshire hills expected to see — and did see — the visitors dominate and score freely.—
Michael Walker,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2025
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But Tara’s sensualism also isolates her, emphasizing the narrowness of a life crammed with dead things.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Inhale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhale. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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