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- noun Plural form of
lungful .
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Examples
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You can hear him drawing breath - tiny gasps during "Bloom," big gulpy lungfuls during "Morning Mr. Magpie" - but he exhales the same as ever: in a mumbly, monochromatic moan where the vowels are dramatic and the consonants are tough to make out.
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I gasped, drawing huge lungfuls of air through the material.
The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011
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The air is clean and damp; I breathe in great lungfuls of the lovely woodland mustiness, the warm earthiness that you find only here.
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But it was enough for him to suck in two quick lungfuls of air to revive his strength.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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But it was enough for him to suck in two quick lungfuls of air to revive his strength.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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Somniloquies rise like the drowned their lungfuls of air ripple as indecipherable a vision translucent as halite in opaque huelessness the night of it meandering breath is the sea rote I float to the pupil wade the green iris shut in its eyelid these thoughts dream me and not I them how from out of silence clarities swim
The Night Shore Raymond Gibson 2011
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I gasped, drawing huge lungfuls of air through the material.
The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011
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But it was enough for him to suck in two quick lungfuls of air to revive his strength.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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I still believed that we weren't just going to walk into the water, to just walk into lungfuls of water.
It Wasn't Me. Chris Braiotta 2011
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But it was enough for him to suck in two quick lungfuls of air to revive his strength.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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