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- noun Alternative form of
lung power .
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Examples
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They were helpless, but had like babies, enough lungpower to cry out and demand attention.
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Put frankly, you can simply overload the environment with enough words (and your lungpower, now measured in kilojoules per hour) that lesser souls would cave in to your demands.
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Put frankly, you can simply overload the environment with enough words (and your lungpower, now measured in kilojoules per hour) that lesser souls would cave in to your demands.
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It seems our neighbors aren't so lucky, because when you have an extreme emotion (either joy or Russian-novel-anguish) you are capable of lungpower that would have been the envy of ship captains during the Napoleonic Wars.
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It seems our neighbors aren't so lucky, because when you have an extreme emotion (either joy or Russian-novel-anguish) you are capable of lungpower that would have been the envy of ship captains during the Napoleonic Wars.
lulu lumens 2007
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It also requires a far broader range, a far better sense of pitch and much more lungpower than I can muster.
Speaking of organs... Ann Althouse 2006
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I'm not sure that it's affected my lungpower but I don't have the lungpower I did.
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She has probably heard a lot of Janis Joplin, with her juxtaposition of high, clear tenderness and rasping ferocity, and she has the lungpower and finesse to follow through, making each song a winding, wrenching emotional drama, full of ups and downs, dramatic pauses and explosive crescendos.
NYT > Home Page By JON PARELES 2011
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Further, by progressively changing your routine over time it ensures maximum fat loss with a "bulletproof" heart and "super-sized" lungpower.
foodconsumer.org 2010
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Further, by progressively changing your routine over time it ensures maximum fat loss with a "bulletproof" heart and "super-sized" lungpower.
foodconsumer.org 2010
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