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  • noun Alternative form of lung power.

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Examples

  • They were helpless, but had like babies, enough lungpower to cry out and demand attention.

    The Republic Stops Here 2009

  • 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.

    two and three quarters, sir! 2008

  • 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.

    words had forked some lightning 2008

  • 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.

    no sweater, no train service 2007

  • 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

  • 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

  • I'm not sure that it's affected my lungpower but I don't have the lungpower I did.

    CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2002 2002

  • 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

  • Further, by progressively changing your routine over time it ensures maximum fat loss with a "bulletproof" heart and "super-sized" lungpower.

    foodconsumer.org 2010

  • 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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