exhale
verb (used without object)
to emit breath or vapor; breathe out.
has exhaled
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present perfectof exhale (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“American Patriarch” is a tonic reminder that, from its very beginnings, our republic has exhaled a whiff of the miraculous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
At some point — on the plane from France, as it was unloaded in the midwinter cold of Chelsea? — the painting has exhaled the artist’s breath.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
I can readily believe you, as I have noticed it myself, and this evening isn't the first time that my wife has exhaled an odor of smoking tobacco.
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock
It has exhaled an atmosphere of sharp, mystic contrasts which were as unreal as they were vicious.
From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Roy Wood Sellars
Out of such residuum of poetry, when the poesy has exhaled, we make our spiritual food!
From The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by R. Heber Newton
