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is inhaling
verb
To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
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But not everyone is inhaling.
On one of the mattresses, a woman in her 20s is inhaling eagerly.
Against this backdrop, the Reverend Richard Coles – Britain's most famous vicar, former pop star with The Communards and beloved Radio 4 host – is inhaling a round of sandwiches while enthusing about the joys of dogging.
It is a film with sex on its mind; sex pops up all over the place and Maddin is inhaling the fumes of pre-Hays Code cinema, before sex was regulated and disapproved of.
In Clark's ever evocative language there is a visceral feel to Maribel's emotions (as when a flustered Maribel is "inhaling the charcoal-scented air, exhaling Mr. Webster") and her sense of the evanescence of life ("in those dying weeks of summer").
Yes, all the time – when the Victoria line is part suspended; when there's a busker playing an unforgivable version of Fleetwood Mac's "Albatross"; when the bloke opposite is inhaling an inexplicable 8am Pad Thai with all the expertise of a leaf blower, creating a vast arc of noodle backsplash and a pungent miasma that stretches the length of the entire carriage.
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Tamiflu, which is a capsule, is much more popular than Relenza, which is inhaled.
Cocaine is snorted, a stewardess is groped, and alcohol is inhaled.
E-cigarettes heat liquid nicotine to a vapour, which is inhaled.
The drug, which increases hydration of lungs and helps open airways, is inhaled.
The disease occurs when contaminated water is inhaled into the lungs.
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