lungful's Usage Examples:

these barriers in a variety of ways; using the simple "free dive" with a lungful of air or by utilising the available diving technology of the day.

while he is fitting the gas mask Doris pulls out the pipe, giving Godboy a lungful of gas and sending him unconscious.

of pearl diving breathes its last: Japanese women who mine seabed one lungful of air at a time are last of their kind".

Taking in a lungful was an extremely unpleasant experience.

Exchange of gases with a lungful of fresh air is necessary to replenish oxygen and rid the bloodstream of.

November 2009, Melua nearly drowned after she breathed in and choked on a lungful of water when diving in a lake near Heathrow Airport.

This does not affect breath-hold divers as they bring a lungful of air with them from the surface, which merely re-expands safely to near.

On the other hand, a fit diver leaving the bottom with a moderate lungful of air, relatively unstressed, and not overexerted, will usually have sufficient.

human pioneering spirit and its twin: the urge to survive till the final lungful of oxygen is expended.

freediving as free-divers start and finish the dive with only a single lungful of air and it has long been assumed that free divers are not exposed to.

The average human body with a relaxed lungful of air is close to neutral buoyancy.

criticizing her vocals which sound "like she was forced to suck down a lungful of helium".

It is estimated that at 4,000 metres (13,000 ft), every lungful of air only has 60% of the oxygen molecules that people at sea level have.