exhale
verb (used without object)
to emit breath or vapor; breathe out.
had exhaled
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past perfectof exhale.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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“Ryder, the coaches, the whole bench,” DeBoer said when asked whether Ryder had exhaled after scoring the goal.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2014
The building felt like it had exhaled, expanding a little bit without all thirty-four of us, crammed two to a desk, filling up nearly every square inch of space.
From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed
Atop each corner of the cell-block’s wall, rounded guard towers seemed to sag sadly at their edges as though the prison itself had exhaled a final dying gasp.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
It seemed to her that the strange creature had exhaled a sort of torpor which she could not shake off.
From Garrick's Pupil by Auguston Filon
It was as if the earth had exhaled her breath and let her abdomen fall.
From Time and Change by John Burroughs
