During sleep and for the demands of the singing voice, however, thorax and abdomen interchange with one another in so harmonious a manner that their inspirations and expirations appear as one respective inspiration and expiration.
When the child screams with hunger, he draws the tongue back, shortens it and thereby broadens it, making loud expirations with longer or shorter intervals.
In forced expirations the muscles in the abdominal walls contract to push up the diaphragm.
Except in forced expirations the ribs are lowered and converged by their own weight and by the elastic reaction of the surrounding parts.
In this connection an important case is reported by Pierre Janet[30]: A young man twenty-five years old was affected with a facial tic in the shape of constant grimaces, accompanied by violent expirations through one nostril.
Of course the embellishment of one's discourse with more or less audible expirations is of frequent occurrence: the hesitating eh .
Laughing consists of a series of short, rapid, spasmodic expirations which cause the peculiar sounds, with characteristic movements of the facial muscles.
Crying, caused by emotional states, consists of sudden jerky expirations with long inspirations, with facial movements indicative of distress.
If, while water was flowing from a clepsydra, one were to count a hundred expirations in a boy, and then in an old man, of course, there would not be the same amount of water at the end of the enumeration.
Just in the same way would it not be possible to make a more accurate judgment with regard to the breathing, if the inspirations and expirations were studied according to the weight of the water that passed during a certain interval?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expirations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
