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
Crappies are quite capable of inhaling your entire jig without even nudging the float.
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Cory Schmidt, Outdoor Life, 15 Apr. 2026
Peppermint oil used as aromatherapy should be inhaled directly from the bottle or through a diffuser.
—T'keyah Bazin, Verywell Health, 9 Apr. 2026
Once airborne, these microscopic spores are easily inhaled without people realizing it.
—Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026
When a degraded grassland returns to health, the ground heaves up, as if inhaling with relief.
—Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
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Cory Schmidt, Outdoor Life, 15 Apr. 2026
Peppermint oil used as aromatherapy should be inhaled directly from the bottle or through a diffuser.
—T'keyah Bazin, Verywell Health, 9 Apr. 2026
Once airborne, these microscopic spores are easily inhaled without people realizing it.
—Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026
When a degraded grassland returns to health, the ground heaves up, as if inhaling with relief.
—Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inhale
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Greg Dubuque’s 40 drivers are in a constant diesel-devouring loop.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
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Coors Field has made Hall of Famers feign injuries, rookies beg for mercy, and used Lorenzen for dental floss after the Phillies devoured, in order, his curve, slider, cutter, changeup and sinker.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
4 Apr. 2026
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With the dead and the wounded sprawled around them, the mocambos gulped the wine from the sacramental chalice.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Mar. 2026
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As studios gulped down profits, talent below and above the line began to demand adequate shares of the pie.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
12 Mar. 2026
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Former clients described Motta encouraging people to get surgeries, and others discussed one particularly shameless episode in which a large church van, crammed with prospective plaintiffs, intentionally collided with a truck.—
Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Kim Kardashian has crammed a lot into her career.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
13 Apr. 2026
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“Inhale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhale. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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