inhaling

present participle of inhale
as in devouring
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 inhaling Miners argue increased subjection to the dust has led to an eruption of black lung, an incurable disease associated with inhaling the particles. Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025 Amy Louise Leonard, 20, a makeup artist from Greater Manchester in England, lost the ability to walk for three weeks after inhaling a balloon filled with nitrous oxide, commonly called laughing gas. Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 10 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 Simply inhaling for four counts and exhaling for four counts brings oxygen to your muscles, reducing the emotion's intensity and relaxing the body. Juli Fraga, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2025 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 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 More than a dozen workers at a Montana animal shelter were hospitalized last week after inhaling methamphetamine that officials burned in an on-site incinerator. Melina Khan, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inhaling
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  • Many of the people devouring YoungBoy’s endless stream of new music have also been devouring news of his various altercations and legal cases.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Since his introduction in Peacemaker’s first season, the sarcastic, Cheeto-devouring martial arts expert has been one of the sharpest thorns in the sides of the 11th Street Kids.
    Scott Meslow, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • One night Icarius got all his friends together for a wine-tasting party that quickly got out of hand and turned into a wine-gulping party.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The pressure is always on the taker, the player standing, gulping, trying desperately not to unload their lunch onto the turf, preparing to do something theoretically simple — kick the ball into the net from 12 yards with only one opponent able to stop them.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
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  • So cramming those two tones together is a hard thing to do.
    H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Government funding has been appropriated this way for the past nine fiscal years, with Congress cramming 108 spending measures into 13 bills.
    Lazaro Gamio, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Inhaling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhaling. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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