inhale

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 In particular, inhaling Aspergillus fumigatus can cause serious lung problems, including invasive pulmonary aspergillosis, aspergilloma, allergic asthma, pneumonitis and allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis. New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2025 Within seconds of inhaling the foul odor, the white dog springs back in disgust and hastily shuffles to the other side of the bed, as though trying to escape the smell altogether. Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025 This felt a long way of her saying that her paymasters are not about to inhale ITV. Jake Kanter, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025 Casteel suspects that long before whole-body deodorant arrived on the market, many people were using existing products in unsafe ways; in rare cases, people have died from inadvertently inhaling the gases of aerosol deodorants. Franklin Schneider, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inhale
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  • Tehran also has to say no to megaprojects that devour budgets and ecosystems.
    Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Smith, the charity board member, stands in between the long blades of grass that have grown back where blazing fires devoured everything in its path just a year ago.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
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  • Both bands specialize in grooves that feel bulbous and fetid: kick drums gulping with fear, flickering guitars evoking lantern light.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2025
  • So the 46,000 at the Stadium of Light gulped again.
    Michael Walker, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
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  • The Nutribullet Ultra crams a 1200-watt motor into its rather slim casing; that’s double the wattage of the Nutribullet Pro blender that’s a step down.
    Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Use your backpack or your sleeping bag crammed into its compression sack beneath your forearms.
    Kate Pitts, Outside, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Inhale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhale. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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