Examples of mouth-breathing

• I’m more than ready to take on the mouth-breathing thugs.

• He's a basement-dwelling, mouth-breathing troll.

• They've spent whole careers playing mouth-breathing, monosyllabic, and violent men.

• To attempt to stop mouth-breathing before providing abundant air-space through the nostrils is not only irrational, but cruel.

• A mouth-breathing child is very apt to catch cold and as a consequence of the habit may become catarrhal or tubercular.

• The most common reason for mouth-breathing is the growth of small lumps in the throat just behind the nose.

• The harmfulness of mouth-breathing is explained in another chapter.

• Nevertheless, mouth-breathing in all ages has been regarded as a bad habit, and with good reason.

• Many of the diseases to which civilized man is subject are undoubtedly caused by this common habit of mouth-breathing.

• Among diseases predisposing to consumption, ordinary colds and bronchitis, influenza, pneumonia, measles, nasal obstruction causing mouth-breathing, and scarlet fever are the most important.

• If he persists in this, closes the mouth when he goes to sleep, in time the mouth-breathing will cease, and with it the disagreeable habit of snoring.

• The collapsed state of the wings of the nose, and wasted condition of their muscles, resulting from long disease, often contributes to the perpetuation of the mouth-breathing habit.

• We are unable to see adenoids because of their position, but can be reasonably sure of their presence in children where we find symptoms resulting from mouth-breathing as described below.

• Many persons who, for the sake of appearances, keep their mouth closed during the day, persist in mouth-breathing at night and often contract disease in this way.

• Many contagious diseases are contracted by the disgusting habit of mouth-breathing, and many cases of cold and catarrhal affections are also attributable to the same cause.

• Mouth-breathing is not simply a bad habit, a careless trick on the part of the child.