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Meanings of respire in English
Draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs.
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Examples for "breathe"
Examples for "breathe"
1
I stared straight ahead, unable to talk, not yet able to breathe.
2
In case of gas put on the respirator; otherwise breathe out continuously.
3
Designers across Ford had to work together to help this engine breathe.
4
To the nation in general the manifesto would breathe nothing but affection.
5
She couldn't breathe, couldn't think, could only feel-andknow herself utterly content.
1
Between pulls he would suspire deeply, so as to get the full assistance of the Climate.
2
She breathed long, gasping breaths and felt something in her suspire that was alien in its comfort.
3
The scene about me suspired like the brilliant and deadly scales of a poisonous reptile.
4
He suspired exhaustively in the still, strong heat, and took possession of the scene with commanding, intolerant eyes.
5
You've been suspiring and then you've wiped your forehead with your dirty hand, the way you say I mustn't.
1
Don't allow him to take a breath before you strike somewhere else.
2
There was a brief hesitation before he heard her take a breath.
3
At the Pacific Station I was ordered to take a breath test.
4
You just have to take a breath, let it out, and squeeze.
5
Somehow she managed to take a breath without audibly gasping, then another.
Usage of respire in English
1
They respire, merely as a vestigial reflex, but they don't oxygenate anymore.
2
He laughed, and seemed to respire more air into his broad chest.
3
The moment after I began to respire twenty quarts of unmingled nitrous oxide.
4
This enables the lungs to respire non-synchronously with the heart.
5
When a spontaneous effort to respire is observed, proceed to induce Circulation and Warmth.
6
The root, pith, lobes, plume, calyx, coral, sap, blood, leaves respire and absorb light.
7
Its breathings were difficult, and every effort to respire produced a convulsion harder than the last.
8
By this time he could scarcely respire.
9
Now that, not my apology, but my defence is made, I feel my soul respire more easily.
10
I can no more.-Ifonce I was clear of this cursed farm, I should respire more at ease.
11
After this long dripping and oozing from every pore, she began to respire again more healthily than ever.
12
With what eagerness did I run every morning at sunrise to respire the perfumed air in the peristyle!
13
Hepatocytes from hypothyroid rats respire more slowly than those from control animals; cells from hyperthyroid rats respire faster.
14
People are beginning to respire freely again; and such another space of time would have cicatrized our wounds-when ,hark
15
Many children sneeze before they respire, but not all, as far as I have observed, or can learn from others.
16
George could scarcely respire for a moment, but gradually recovered sufficiently to mumble, Gents, this is one on yours truly.
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