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Meanings of
blowhole
in inglés
portugués
espiráculo
catalán
respirall
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A hole for the escape of gas or air.
vent
vent-hole
venthole
portugués
espiráculo
Usage of
blowhole
in inglés
1
Red blood spouts straight out, the way a whale clears its
blowhole
.
2
At one point, there were water spout,
blowhole
mists, just covering the horizon.
3
The Amazon River dolphin, or boto, sometimes goes further, penetrating another dolphin's
blowhole
.
4
The face's mouth and the orca's
blowhole
were the same thing.
5
I heard his breath catch, as though a pebble had clogged the
blowhole
.
6
His team built this artificial whale
blowhole
system called Snotshot.
7
The orca's
blowhole
had a human face carved around it.
8
Just the whales, whose sudden
blowhole
puffs almost made me jump out of my skin.
9
Gasping on the surface I felt distinctly like an exhausted seal emerging from a
blowhole
.
10
Inspector A. M. Jarvis says the sailors regard Herschell Island as a
"
blowhole
.
"
11
The whale grew a grotesque caricature of a blind-eyed face in front of its
blowhole
.
12
Thick black blood gushed from the hole, like ocean-spray spurting from the devil's own
blowhole
.
13
I could hear him wheezing, the breath drawing in and out like air through a
blowhole
.
14
A coven of wives
blowhole
wild laughter.
15
Dolphins usually breathe using their
blowhole
.
16
Vixa panted hard through her
blowhole
.
Other examples for "blowhole"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
blowhole
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
blowhole wild
clog the blowhole
double blowhole
first blowhole
functional blowhole
More collocations
Translations for
blowhole
portugués
espiráculo
catalán
respirall
respirador
Blowhole
through the time