inhale
verb (used with object)
to breathe in; draw in by breathing.
is inhaling
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present progressiveof inhale (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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As inspiration is inhaling or breathing in Truth, we can readily understand that 'God, Truth, Principle, is no respecter of persons.'
From The Right Knock A Story by Helen Van-Anderson
If while one is inhaling and raising the arms, one also slowly rises on the toes and slowly resumes a natural foot position while exhaling, the exercise will be even better.
From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by R. L. Alsaker
It has, in the second place, the advantage of helping to keep the Inhaler cool by the patient making use of it to rest her thumb upon when she is inhaling.
From Parturition without Pain or Loss of Consciousness by James Townley
But the pasha’s attention is failing, O’er his visage his fair turban stealeth; From chebouk he sleep is inhaling, Whilst around him sweet vapours he dealeth.
From Mollie Charane and Other Ballads by George Henry Borrow
With his eyes half closed, he is inhaling, undoubtedly, the perfume of his myrtles, the soft fragrance of his heliotropes?
From The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or the Real Robinson Crusoe by Joseph Xavier Saintine
