How To Use Breath In A Sentence

The new taxon is named Gamerabaena, and the authors note, under etymology, "'Gamera refers to the fictional, firebreathing turtle from the 1965 movie Gamera, in allusion to his fire-breathing capabilities and the Hell Creek Formation ... "Look at everything around us. Look at everything we've done."
Sefelt has pulled back halfway normal, swelling up and down with big wet, rattling breaths.
You notice that your breathing has speeded up a bit.
After all this time she was alive, living, breathing, and walking on the earth.
When she at last rose it was with panting breath. Emily Fox-Seton

It can make you sweat too, or feel dizzy or breathless. The Sun
I had just popped out for a breath of fresh air,and missed your telephone call.
Two bus-rides and a walk in the rain later we found the old dairy farm, muttering under our breaths about the wisdom of locating such an establishment way out in the sticks.
Considering my diminutiveness, the size of the pail in my lap, and my drinking out of it my breath held and my face buried to the ears in foam, it was rather difficult to estimate how much I drank. Chapter 3
The depth and rate of breathing are controlled by special centres in the brain, which influence the nerves that cause contraction and relaxation of the muscles of respiration.
But physical discomforts during the third trimester, such as heartburn, leg cramps, fetal movement, shortness of breath and sinus congestion, can again interfere with sleep.
But it was the introduction of the breathalyser in 1967 that really thrust her into the public's consciousness, especially as she herself was a non-driver.
The Sanskrit word for “control” is yama, and the second limb of Yoga is called pranayama: “breath control of the life force.” Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar
A mummy's pinkie turned out to be pilose asiabell, which she said was good for breathing, provided it was cooked with astragalus (those were the white sections of tongue depressor). Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue
She took a deep breath and fiddled with the sapphire necklace hanging down below her collar bone.
I asked breathily, batting my eyelashes at him.
If you were to take out two or three shrubs to let the remainder breathe, what sort of rhythm would be left? Times, Sunday Times
Muttering under his breath, the soldier extended the spyglass, increasing the magnification of the instrument.
I am quite breathless with excitement, or possibly contempt. Times, Sunday Times
Later that night, after he had carried her inside, he lay next to her on the hearthrug, listening to her breathe, not quite believing what had just happened.
Painter and decorator Geoffrey Jenks was so shocked when he failed a roadside breath test, he felt his Cokes must have been spiked, Kennet magistrates in Devizes heard on Tuesday.
I was reading WIRED for the first time in ages the other day, and found myself getting annoyed all over again at the breathless prose they use in their articles.
She breathed her advice softly.
I could feel the cold upon my skin; I breathed it into my lungs along with the heavy smell of formalin. NIGHT SISTERS
“Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.” — The Codex Continual. Official Website of Steven E. Schend
White cap set her up long hair and half of his face is obscured, but felt she must be very beautiful, breathtaking beauty!
It works non-invasively, by analysing how the mix of gases in the breath of its test subjects alter between inhalation and exhalation.
While there is breath left in my body, I will refuse.
The volume breathed out in the first second of forceful blowing into a spirometer, measured in litres.
His relegation of the winds to the class of breathings is analogic, but not homologic. Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56
Still breathing heavy from her brisk, morning jog, she sauntered into the kitchen for a bottle of water.
However, I would not hold your breath that the rogue parties will have a sudden fit of netiquette - after all, what's in it for them?
She once rang me breathless with excitement: ‘I'm going to be in a magazine!’
It's a natural material so it breathes, allowing the feet to breathe as well.
The dog snapped its jaws open and closed inches from Rae's face and he could smell the animal's fetid breath, choking him, causing him to gag.
More than a dozen appliances, including 10 pumps and a breathing apparatus tender from Bolton, attended the fire which started at about 7pm.
White cap set her up long hair and half of his face is obscured, but felt she must be very beautiful, breathtaking beauty!
Maybe you need a breather. The Sun
You cannot on one hand tell foks how good gayness is then in the same breath use gayness as an insult andhave any crediblity. Think Progress » Religious Right Seeks Unprecedented Constitutional Convention To Ban Gay Marriage Without Congress
Following close behind her, Lily could almost feel Marion breathing on her neck.
Wear light colored, breathable clothing such as cotton.
They may also administer intravenous antihistamines and cortisone to reduce inflammation of your air passages and improve your breathing.
'' His symptoms were difficulty breathing, muscle pain, gastroenteritis and what we call intravascular coagulation, '' the doctor said. WN.com - Articles related to World Cup Live: Paraguay vs. Spain
The air in the building was dark and brown, like the air the rank and file breathed down under the ground.
‘Could've fooled me,’ he rasped in between breaths.
Tiktaalik would have breathed like a lungfish, says Clack, senior assistant curator at Cambridge's University Museum of Zoology.
Her breathing sounded more like hyperventilating as she paced back and forth.
Despite their fishlike exteriors, ichthyosaurs had to surface to breathe air and they gave birth to live young.
She heard his words, and felt them, a breath across her temple, a deep reverberation in his chest. SCANDAL'S BRIDE
The beautiful view from the top of the mountain took my breath away.
Mentally recollecting myself, I took a deep breath and said coolly, ‘Andrew, please leave.’
I walked several miles south along the beach past Venice and just spent some time relaxing and breathing in the sea air.
‘I'm coming,’ he muttered, under his breath as he pulled on his bathrobe.
He began to breathe in and out normally.
Cat dander is the only thing which makes me have terrible trouble breathing – my lungs, throat, I get itchy, sneezy, wheezy … and only seems worse, not better, with time around cats. If Wishes Were Pussycats | Her Bad Mother
He needed an oxygen machine to help him breathe and a team of nurses to roll him over in bed.
They care so much about what others think and then rave about national pride and self-respect in the same breath.
Unlike the kisses we shared in the past, this kiss was rough, hard, and I could smell and taste the alcohol on his breath.
If workmen breathed in the fine paint spray, their lungs would be damaged.
Gladiator breathed deeply, taking off his red vest briefly and fanning himself with it.
As for the remaining four songs, 'Wrapped Around Your Finger' and 'Tea In The Sahara' are doomy ciphers, the former possibly about marriage, the latter open to a handful of interpretations, none of them exactly upbeat, while 'Synchronicity I' is a trifle explaining the title concept and the monster hit 'Every Breath You Take', is ostensibly a trite love song with it's icy and obsessive core just barely concealed. Synchronicity
Let's take their breathtaking hypocrisy. The Sun
No doubt Mr Mutley is well aquatinted with the way dogs mate, having mounted the lady dog the chap dog turns around and then they commence to perform the filthy act facing away from each other, having smelt pedigree chum on a dogs breath I cant say that I blame them. Double Jeopardy
Tayrah took a deep breath and smothered the anger she felt approaching and then quickly changed the subject.
We sit cramped up at a desk and breathe little shallow breaths with the top of our lungs. Repetitive Strain Injury
Her coloratura singing was often breathtaking!
In that breath the fume of pig foot, chitterling and cheap chili, malign, mocked John. John Lundberg: Three Poems For Martin Luther King Day
The girl cast another glance behind, took a deep breath and stepped forward.
Shivering he slowed his breathing and closed his mind, retreating within himself in one of the meditation rituals.
Before going on stage, I breathe deeply and think positive thoughts.
I needed to take a breather after each concerto.
The doctor told him to breathe in deeply and then breathe out.
Besides, he had, it seems, a weakness in his voice, a perplexed and indistinct utterance and a shortness of breath, which, by breaking and disjointing his sentences much obscured the sense and meaning of what he spoke. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Most patients succumb when the diaphragm and rib muscles become paralyzed, and breathing becomes impossible.
In the modern world, we are used to the washed-out whitness of the underlying marble or stone used to create the work of art, and so seeing replicas of the originals in full color is breathtaking. Archive 2008-01-01
Many fishes have trouble surviving as lakes’ temperatures rise and dissolved-oxygen levels fall, but the arapaima thrives because it breathes atmospheric oxygen through its mouth.
The Army officer in tactical command of coalition forces in Iraq says out loud that the war isn't going precisely as planned, and the media works itself into a mouth-breathing, eyeball-popping swivet.
But strong mints used to freshen breath bucked the trend, with a 16 per cent rise. The Sun
The usual symptoms are a persistent cough and shortness of breath. The Sun
I couldn't breathe, the fumes were suffocating me.
Two visitors at a time can poke their heads into his inflatable textile construction, sharing the air they breathe in the enclosed pod-like space.
Dead breathe I living breathe, tread dead dust, devour a urinous offal from all dead.
Beyond, the Pacific, dim and vast, was raising on its sky-line tumbled cloud-masses that swept landward, giving warning of the first blustering breath of winter. Chapter 21
To finish off the breathtaking site, a fountain of stone stood in the center, water gently cascading down the rock in the center.
Your poverty of ambition is breathtaking. Times, Sunday Times
Some days, going outside, he felt as if he was breathing through a wet washrag. KISSCUT
As we sit looking across the Thames, he pauses to catch his breath. Times, Sunday Times
Breathing in and out for an equal length of time is another way to experience expansiveness and balance.
But that will thankfully never happen, because without trees and animals, food chains collapse, the air is unbreathable, they die, we die - or maybe no one's thought of that.
Helgi hath me hitherward sent to say to thee, Sváva, these words: he longeth sorely to see thee, ere the bold baron's breath have left him.
But aren't we wasting breath speculating on the potential of Merlot from the FL? 2008 Harvest Report: Finger Lakes
Without it, the carbonic acid produced during breathing would remain acidic and throw an organism's system out of balance.
There was a sickening lurch as my chute opened and my harness tightened round me so that I could hardly breathe.
Maintaining a breathable atmosphere would not be a variable anyone thought to specify. Times, Sunday Times
The limit of the breathing apparatus was 45 feet. Times, Sunday Times
There ,my son, is love. The love that makes all things beautiful. Yes, and breaths divinity into the very dust you tread.
You get to be near your family and grandchildren, which will breathe life into you and give you continual relationships and purpose. Times, Sunday Times
Hayes breathed out in reverence as he watched the day spreading across the planet.
Over the course of the year, he's almost hit on the head by a sparrowhawk, gets a whiff of "bad badger breath" when three cubs cannon into his lap, and watches two stoats massacre a screaming leveret, their normally creamy bibs "the colour of a slaughterman's apron". A Year in the Woods: The Diary of a Forest Ranger by Colin Elford
A shock-headed boy, breathless from running, flung himself into the room.
A top-heavy nurse in cricket pads and dangling overhead light pack struggles to aim a fire breathing generator in a duel with a whip-cracking foreman.
The carriage had become so smoky that passengers had to crouch to the floor to breathe, he said. Times, Sunday Times
Even the lighting's perfect for noir and is a breath of fresh air as it's been a long time since someone has lit a film so fittingly.
An elderly monk presented with a sharp thoracic back pain of sudden onset and shortness of breath.
Instead of taking joy in the profusion of spring blooms, Jane struggles to take a breath.
Catching her breath and the bag, she placed her coffee on the table, and untucked her feet.
Much of Northern Taiwan breathed a sigh of relief yesterday as heavy rains fell around the country yesterday evening.
Rex breathed a very big sigh of relief.
Climate change in the same breath as greed and consumption, sounds like our man (as was) at the IPCC, Houghton, who believed that emissions reductions would save the planet from mankind's 'greed and indifference '. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
I don't get your confusion if I mutter under my breath about the enormity of your shelter, or your look of dry indignation if I run and buddy up with you under your brolly - there's room enough for two, no?
The lake seemed to breathe, expanding and contracting, rising and falling, its surface level changing several feet in a matter of minutes, spectacular and terrifying at once.
After all that running I have no breath left.
Slowly I settled against him and I listened to his breathing; it was raspy and every once in a while he would cough, but he still held me tight.
She pushed her hair back and fastened it with a clip at the base of her neck, breathing deeply.
The article breathes the spirit of the age.
It was an enforced absence from work, but at least it gave me a little time to catch my breath before the final push.
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. George Eliot
I read day and night, like an asthmatic gasping for breath. Dreamseller: The Calling
Her rapid pulse, high blood pressure, irregular breathing, and bluish discoloration of the skin all called for life-saving measures.
Leather uppers allow the feet to breathe.
Correct breathing helps to clear the mind and reduce tension.
You breathe this rarefied air for a very short time. The Sun
Severe vomiting, diarrhoea, rectal tenesmus: unable to keep standing, she urinates under herself; the pupils are dilated, the eyes haggard; complete mind-blindness, near-total failure of reflexes, deep unconsciousness, breathing dyspneic, heart-beat faint and very fast, pulse barely perceptible; dead in thirty-six hours. Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture
He is alleged to have resisted arrest after failing a breath test and was taken away in handcuffs. The Sun
If you do have bad breath and you believe the culprit is a dark or hairy tongue, you could have condition known as lingua villosa nigra. Dr. Harold Katz: Bad Breath and Your Tongue
With each gasp for breath, the wolves became more and more tired.
Almost every conversation begins with a reminder that the speakers have "renk breath" and "dirt-encrusted nostrils". The Long Song: Amazon.co.uk: Andrea Levy: Books
To begin with, his stertorous breathing fell just short of snoring. Shameless
This occurrence, called aspiration, may result in choking, coughing and difficulty breathing. Foreign Objects
They are made of breathable Sheltex and feature removable insoles.
Look at those hollyhocks, like pyramids of roses; those garlands of the convolvulus major of all colours, hanging around that tall pole, like the wreathy hop-bine; those magnificent dusky cloves, breathing of the Spice Islands; those flaunting double dahlias; those splendid scarlet geraniums, and those fierce and warlike flowers the tiger-lilies. Our Village
Ah, what a world entire was this lost little hamlet of Paradise, where merrymakers trod on the mourners 'heels, where the scream of the biniou drowned the floating note of the passing bell, where Misery drew the curtains of her bed and lay sleepless, listening to Gayety dancing breathless to the patter of a coquette's wooden shoes! The Maids of Paradise
You notice that your breathing has speeded up a bit.
Avoid Clavicular Breathing and Belly Breathing -- instead, learn the proper way to breathe for singing, called diaphragmatic breathing. Dailycomic Diary Entry
This event catalyzed a year-long quest to develop an observer/participant art form reflecting the integration of time (particle) and space (wave) into the living breathing presence of a new archetype, the "wavicle" reflecting Tambellini's space/time experiments in art & physics at MIT, anticipating the hyperdimensional model based on the torsion effect of the rotation of the planets and their satellites arising from behind the Iron Curtain. Lisa Paul Streitfeld: (R)evolution in Art & Physics: The All-Round Genius of Aldo Tambellini
They browbeat my sister to order my execution, virtually to the moment of her final breath. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
And in his stable at Ascot the son of Sleeping Dove, from home for the first time, pondered on the mutability of equine affairs, closing and opening his eyes, and breathing without sound in the strawy dark, above the black cat he had brought to bear him company. Swan Song
I was now able to breathe properly and started to feel over my body with both hands.
She was left so out of breath by the journey on foot that even 20 hours later she was still gasping for air.
I can't breathe properly?I'm gasping for air!
Lucky for me I brought the full-faced respirator and self-contained breathing apparatus with me.
But earlier I used to get palpitations with breathlessness.
Ryoshi was breathing heavily as she ran through the corridors, her breath coming in hard pants.
She was panting: her breath forming strings of transient puffs in the cold air.
Young amphibians, like the larval frog or tadpole pictured here, spend their early years in the water, breathing through gills in the side of their head in much the same way as fish do.
In the recent retrospective of Nan Kempner’s wardrobe at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, the late socialite’s closet was re-created in breathtaking detail — all 354 jackets and 362 sweaters — but her surprisingly undistinguished collection of handbags was relegated to a high shelf and mostly hidden. Carried Away
A line of description at the bottom of the last page that sends the camera slowly tracking back… so the audience can catch its breath gather its thoughts, and leave the cinema with dignity.
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. Oprah Winfrey
I hear a sharp indrawn breath and I look away from inside myself to see Sam looking anaemic, her colour is so pale.
He eventually left his boat and was able to grab one breath of air before being forced down.
It's the reverse of birthdays, this laying out outside the meats and cheese, cruets of oil standing sentry at the table and each guest barely able to breathe in the funerary wreaths of citronella haze.
Symptoms of organotin exposure can include irritated skin, dizziness, difficulty breathing, and flu-like symptoms. Scientific Blogging
For fine white flowers we have the showy achilleas in variety and gypsophila paniculata, called baby breath as a common name. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916
Next up for Bilbreath? how to spot an illegal alien by the curliness of their pubes. Think Progress » Rep. Brian Bilbray Says He Can Spot Undocumented Immigrants Based On The Shoes They Wear
She took a deep breath and plunged on with her practiced speech.
He blew out his breath, blowing his hair like Jocelyn had done earlier.
She breathed in the fresh air, untainted by the smell of bat guano, and began following the trail she had marked earlier with hair scrunchies.
Ian's breathing becomes more and more ragged as he drags draught after draught of air deep into his lungs.
After I ran out of breath, I sat down on the swing, and swung slowly as Alex sat on the sand and made sandcastles.
Then, the priest exorcises the child by breathing on the child's forehead, mouth, and breast.
When you are ready to finish the exercise, gradually deepen your breathing.
Last night I went to my first breath therapy session, mostly because the therapist is a close friend - whoops, there I go, now you see what I mean - and I was curious. One year on
I can't get any work done with you breathing down my neck.
The impulsive force of breath is the motive force of sound production when a person is singing; so it is the key link in vocal music training.
For centuries herds of wild mustangs have roamed the American wilderness - breathtaking symbols of the spirit of the pioneers.
Whales are mammals - warm-blooded, air-breathing creatures - but they spend their entire life in the ocean.
The breathing problem has now been complicated by a chest infection.
Imagine switching from an easygoing, carefree lifestyle, to an uptight one with no breathing room.
Relax your shoulders by taking a deep breath and then focus on letting your shoulders drop and loosen.
Taking a deep breath he blew a series of inaudible slow notes, making slight adjustments to the slide after each one.
Satisfied, we stopped to take a breather and admire our hard determination, or lack thereof.
Once into the open street they could breathe more freely.
He had been admitted to hospital with breathing difficulties and passed away early yesterday after suffering from complications of the condition he had battled for 32 years. The Sun
Hiccups, more officially referred to as singultus, from Latin - to catch your breath while sobbing are repeated, spasmodic contractions of the diaphragm causing a quick inhalation, which is then cut short by an involuntary closing of the glottis. NYT > Home Page
In her meditations during zazen she counted her breaths from one to ten.
Herta starts to breathe differently as we kiss; she is always self-possessed; every move of mine is coldly monitored.
Thought to date from the third century BC, it looks incredibly modern – the work of Giacometti is usually used in the same breath.
“If America was a person, — and it sat down, — Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.” Making Light: We Await Silent Tristero’s Empire Nuku Nuku
Set in tranquil sea and surrounded by a powdery sand beach, it is a breathtaking scene. The Sun
During the first twenty minutes or so, I wasn't sure I would make it through the entire movie -- it was, I thought, similar in style to a kind of movie I find unbearable: a style based on long handheld shots, a soundtrack that contains little or no music and lots of environmental sounds characters breathing, eating, walking, and a general attitude that seems to fetishize "artlessness", though offers little to replace the art it so disdains. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
I checked online and found that metoprolol has a warning to contact the doctor immediately if you experience wheezing, shortness of breath or swelling of hands and feet.
Now breathe in -- hold it -- breathe out. Do it again.
This session consists of a variety of gentle stretches or movements to help open your lungs, followed by breathing exercises and awareness practices.
During her heyday from the 1920s to the 1930s, unconventional artist Carmen Mondragón was demonized in much the same way as the fire-breathing creature of legends past. The Fiery Spirit Of Carmen Mondragon
It's terribly smoky in here - I'm just going out for a breath of fresh air.
She took a deep breath and mentally berated herself for being so silly and childish.
Creatures, men and women and things, of bronze and marble, breathe the same air as we do.
Watch the miraculous gift of breath, as your diaphragm lifts up and pulls down.
The doctor asked me to breathe in, then to breathe out fully.
He breathed deeply trying to regulate the pound of his heartbeat. THE SOUND OF MURDER
Those who sleep at all dream of fiery, burning places where eyes smart and breath inflames the lungs.
He took in a deep breath, touching my body gently, tenderly… hesitantly.
With each inward breath feel your body warming as you draw in colours of red or orange. Repetitive Strain Injury
Without breathalysing the cows individually, it seemed, there would be no way of knowing for sure.
Half-way through, I find myself doing yogic breathing and meditation to keep from popping the esthetician in the face.
Worse still, he smells and if you're unfortunate enough to get next to him on the cross trainer and he starts really pumping it, it can cause disturbed breathing that leads to a fatal arrhythmia.
The guys said they heard her death rattle when she drew her last breath. The Sun
His breath came hard
The woman spoke almost without pausing for breath .
The deep breaths exhaled by his broad lines, his declarative sentences and their assertive plangency, his deliberate tactlessness and brave humor, redirect the reader to a history of poetic Yanks: Whitman, Williams.

How To Use Breath In A Sentence

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