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
Residents have not been evacuated from the area, but officials have also noted to wear masks to prevent inhaling volcanic ash and monitor for heavy rains that could increase the possibility of lava flows.
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Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2025
That involves inhaling through your nose while counting to four, holding your breath on a count of four, and then exhaling for the same amount.
—Kris Ann Valdez, Parents, 8 May 2025
Millions of Americans are inhaling e-cigarettes illegally imported from China.
—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2025
As months and years of data arrived, Keeling’s rigorous work revealed two global phenomena: Earth’s plants inhaling CO2 each summer and exhaling it each winter, and CO2 levels’ unrelenting annual increase.
—Ashley Braun, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2025
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Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2025
That involves inhaling through your nose while counting to four, holding your breath on a count of four, and then exhaling for the same amount.
—Kris Ann Valdez, Parents, 8 May 2025
Millions of Americans are inhaling e-cigarettes illegally imported from China.
—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2025
As months and years of data arrived, Keeling’s rigorous work revealed two global phenomena: Earth’s plants inhaling CO2 each summer and exhaling it each winter, and CO2 levels’ unrelenting annual increase.
—Ashley Braun, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inhale
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Slugs can devour seedlings overnight, eat the petals off flowers, and leave ugly holes in ripening fruits and vegetables.—
Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 May 2025
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The instant, ardent determination with which Anna devours Joseph’s letters and begins her affair with Oliver is the crux both of the story and of its form.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
28 May 2025
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The young woman gulps it down, not realizing it is laced with a sedative.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
20 May 2025
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Some daredevils will let tarpon, which can grow up to 8 feet long, gulp their hands to the wrist for a great video moment, but Robbie’s visitors on a relatively quiet day in March were dangling fish through holes in a net, seemingly reluctant to participate in any unnerving limb gulping.—
Marnie Hunter,
CNN Money,
26 Apr. 2025
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Hundreds of townspeople and visitors crammed into the red-brick Rhea County Courthouse to witness the trial.—
Dan Falk,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 May 2025
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While the hostage spends most of the movie off-camera, his abductors are crammed into frames that contain all of their perspectives without privileging any of them.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
20 May 2025
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“Inhale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhale. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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