Example Sentences
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"These associations may help explain why some organic molecules remain protected in soils while others are more vulnerable to being broken down and respired by microbes."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2026
As oxygen from the environment combines with the sugars in patats, it gets respired from the roots as carbon dioxide and water.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2021
The vitiated air must be extracted at the floor level, as the temperature here must be maintained considerably above that of respired air.
From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Allsop, Robert Owen
Pen Gray drew one long, deep, restful breath as if wide-awake, and then slowly and as if grudgingly respired.
From !Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War by Sheldon, Charles Mills
Fat is thus an abnormal production, resulting from a disproportion of carbon in the food to that of the oxygen respired by the lungs or absorbed by the skin.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
