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

Agreed Lockheed Spokesman John Dailey: "It was like everyone had exhaled at once �and none of us knew we'd been holding our breath."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Every school-boy knows how the worst stories of the Greek gods and goddesses lose their immorality as seen to be parables of nature's processes, myths, whose poetry had exhaled in the course of time.

From The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by Newton, R. Heber