Example Sentences

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Fans and players may have exhaled a sigh of relief after the nervy playoff win over second-division Hamburger SV on Monday but there has been little time to reflect or recover.

From Seattle Times • May 27, 2022

After the premiere of “Giselle,” which opened at the Palace Theater here on Tuesday, everyone must have exhaled with relief.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2016

The recorded cases are very numerous in which human persons have exhaled from their skins—sometimes in a very pronounced degree—the odors of plants and flowers, of violets, of roses, of pineapple, of vanilla.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Ellis, Havelock

And she sighed so deeply that I felt a deep 167 passion indeed must have exhaled that sigh.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth

So should he have exhaled the natural fragrance of a late-blooming flower of hereditary honour.

From Madame De Mauves by James, Henry