How To Use Breathe In A Sentence

  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • The volume breathed out in the first second of forceful blowing into a spirometer, measured in litres.
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  • It's a natural material so it breathes, allowing the feet to breathe as well.
  • Maybe you need a breather. The Sun
  • The air in the building was dark and brown, like the air the rank and file breathed down under the ground.
  • Tiktaalik would have breathed like a lungfish, says Clack, senior assistant curator at Cambridge's University Museum of Zoology.
  • Despite their fishlike exteriors, ichthyosaurs had to surface to breathe air and they gave birth to live young.
  • He began to breathe in and out normally.
  • He needed an oxygen machine to help him breathe and a team of nurses to roll him over in bed.
  • 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.
  • We sit cramped up at a desk and breathe little shallow breaths with the top of our lungs. Repetitive Strain Injury
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • There was a sickening lurch as my chute opened and my harness tightened round me so that I could hardly breathe.
  • 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.
  • The carriage had become so smoky that passengers had to crouch to the floor to breathe, he said. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The article breathes the spirit of the age.
  • Leather uppers allow the feet to breathe.
  • You breathe this rarefied air for a very short time. The Sun
  • Avoid Clavicular Breathing and Belly Breathing -- instead, learn the proper way to breathe for singing, called diaphragmatic breathing. Dailycomic Diary Entry
  • I was now able to breathe properly and started to feel over my body with both hands.
  • I can't breathe properly?I'm gasping for air!
  • Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. Oprah Winfrey 
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Herta starts to breathe differently as we kiss; she is always self-possessed; every move of mine is coldly monitored.
  • Now breathe in -- hold it -- breathe out. Do it again.
  • Creatures, men and women and things, of bronze and marble, breathe the same air as we do.
  • 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
  • Wayne, you adorable homophobic mouthbreather you, stop being tiresome and crawl back under your rock. It’s different when Conservatives do it.
  • But after we got into bed, and after Frank had fallen asleep, I lay awake, listening to him breathe.
  • They inserted a tube in his mouth to help him breathe.
  • Shirley should have seen bubbles burbling up as Shaw vented the expanding gases in his rebreather and drysuit.
  • Oh come, you must leave even me a little elbow room in which to breathe.
  • Many provide relief through bronchial or vasal dilations, allowing you to breathe more easily, but they don't affect the body's response to allergens per se.
  • Sometimes she would wake at night unable to breathe, terrified she was suffocating.
  • I want you to breathe in and hold your breath for as long as possible.
  • One class teaches children to breathe like a bunny - two short inhalations, followed by a slow exhalation.
  • At high altitudes, the thin air makes it hard to breathe unless the cabin is pressurized.
  • Coming into reasoned discourse and proving that you are a fellow mouth-breather is tiring as it happens again and again. Discourse.net: Economist.com Does '7 Questions for Dan Froomkin'
  • She dared not breathe a word of it to anybody.
  • The light shone over the man's features, and Connolly breathed a horrible choke.
  • As much as he hated the notion of prolonging his exposure to those sons of bitches, once someone breathed the word assassination it all became a new ball game. Scott Free
  • He will be missed by club and country but the rest of the rugby world will breathe a sigh of relief. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unity in the Scripture is so pressed, so commanded, and commended, that not to breathe after it argues a heart acted by another spirit than that which moved the holy penmen thereof. The Sermons of John Owen
  • Lucy breathed in deeply, and turned her head upwards, accepting the water, feeling it wash away her dirt and grime.
  • They breathe compounds such as CO2, sulphate, sulphite, certain oxidised metals.
  • The Romantic laureate is to be felt beyond the grave by the Victorians, and by their own poet, not in the wispy or whispering touch of his breathed words but in the abstract feelings generated from the written traces of their prophetic aura of aurality. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
  • This scent breathed in, Rebecca is brought back, perforce, to a memory. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
  • But usually, there†™ s a trick to it†powder or liquid breathed from the mouth, or a chemical reagent to reacts with carbon dioxide. 365 tomorrows » 2007 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • Head low as the sun grew higher in the sky, he breathed in the fresh, sweet air with a hint of delighted content.
  • 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
  • Laryngospasm can happen during sleep paralysis (when you wake up but temporarily can't move or breathe). The Sun
  • Take a breather from paying interest: get a 0% card!
  • Manatees usually stay submerged for about two minutes before surfacing to breathe air.
  • While we breathe, there is hope. 
  • But if it was difficult to keep racism on it, it was impossible to even breathe the word heterosexism.
  • Air conditioners, dehumidifiers and thorough cleaning practices, especially in your bedroom, can minimize your exposure to these substances and help you breathe easier.
  • The atmosphere in the room was so stuffy I could hardly breathe.
  • As an oral tradition, Druidry does not anchor itself with scientific or historical facts; instead it breathes, shaping itself through stories ancient and modern.
  • That plant would have been much happier in a pot of unglazed Italian terracotta, so it could breathe.
  • Relax and take a breather whenever you feel that you need one.
  • I stood there for a long time watching her as she breathed and snuffled and murmured occasionally. THE EXECUTION
  • On the margins, why do fibers breathe out leaves and wind?
  • Let her breathe the air outside of Sanctuary for a time and then ask her the same question. TREASON KEEP
  • Staring after him, still seething with rage, I breathed heavily.
  • The recyclable synthetic sack material is a double-walled "geotextile" fabric that is permeable and allows dirt to drain and breathe. Fresh Picks: Highlights From the International Gift Fair in New York
  • This week, Mr. Ratner announced the fresh face he has selected to breathe new life into the wheezy annual exercise in Tinseltown self-congratulation: Eddie Murphy. Get Real, Oscar: Eddie Murphy's Not the Cure for What Ails You
  • The suns' rays beat sharply on the maiden's back and a light wind breathed through the folds of her outfit.
  • During his twelve years in Congress he has tussled with the chemical, drug and power companies on behalf of the ordinary person's right to breathe clean air.
  • The crowd pressed together so tightly that we could hardly breathe.
  • That Stephen is said to ‘inbreathe’ this ‘tremulous morning knowledge’ becomes significant after we see the first cycle of represented inspiration, creative thought, poem text, and Stephen's reflections on the process.
  • When in actuality, children need all of their breath in order to simply breathe.
  • You had to listen hard to hear the old man breathe.
  • Elric breathed thankfully and passed into the Tower of B'aal'nezbett. The Weird of the White Wolf
  • Oh come, you must leave even me a little elbow room in which to breathe.
  • It's so muggy and sticky and every time I breathe in, the air feels disgustingly warm and damp.
  • I breathed irregularly, occasionally hiccuping in my attempts to stop crying.
  • We stayed awake at night listening to him breathe. The Guide to Lesbian and Gay Parenting
  • Why do we breathe, why do we procreate?
  • Max breathed out powerful male sexuality in every movement.
  • When the front line switched to acoustic instruments the music finally began to breathe. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cand you feel my soul, there in darkness breathe on you?
  • They sat on the back porch as morning breathed a frosty zephyr across the weathered planking.
  • Her eyes held him steady and he breathed deeply before nodding in assent.
  • When the ebb and flow of our heart diminishes, we feel separate from the vast world around us, a world in which everything breathes, pulsates, expands and contracts.
  • It starts to breathe, to have moods.
  • He breathes from a portable oxygen canister while doing his preflight, being sure not to inhale any outside air as it would instantly cancel out the effects of the pre-breathing.
  • Shock victims often have a weak pulse, pale and clammy skin, and breathe with difficulty.
  • One linguist notes that the essence of an eggcorn is that it takes a stale metaphor or trite cliche and breathes fresh life into it. Eggcorns: Folk Etymology Creating New Meanings Every Day
  • At the end of the operation, different drugs are injected by the anaesthetist to reverse the paralysis and the patient then starts to breathe spontaneously.
  • Half of us shallow breathe instead of breathing from our diaphragm.
  • Plants clean the very air we breathe, trapping pollutants, taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. The Sun
  • Here and there that woods harlequin, the madrone, permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea-green trunk to madder-red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clusters of waxen bells. All Gold Canon
  • While climbing out of the window, his neck got stuck and it appears he was unable to breathe and suffocated.
  • The songs are light, the production both relaxed and relaxing… the music breathes.
  • According to her aerology manual, the big hydrogen breathers were modeled on the tiny South American islands where Darwin had made his famous discoveries. LEVIATHAN
  • Just as she was beginning to lose her courage, Luke's voice stopped, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
  • This is interesting for the Plumeria Kingdom to think about as humans need oxygen to breathe to sustain health of the body more than they require oxygen to clean their clothes or freshen the home.
  • Feeling the soft grass beneath my feet, I breathed in the night air.
  • The doctor made me breathe in while he listened to my chest.
  • It's good to breathe fresh country air instead of city smoke.
  • Yet the medical profession, seeing no upturn in the incidence of cancer, breathed a sigh of relief.
  • Across the intervening levels the gale races in a straight line from the fort, as if breathed out of it hitherward. A Changed Man
  • He slowly got up and breathed in the new day, filled with anticipation for this afternoon, but all of a sudden was struck with a sharp pain in his chest.
  • It is also a storehouse with new breathers, dosimeters and soviet propagandistic literature.
  • Protein in the diaphragm and intercostal muscles has been depleted, impairing the patient's ability to deep breathe, expectorate, and clear microbes from the lungs.
  • Their earthy smell pervades the air that he breathes. Times, Sunday Times
  • he breathed his last
  • He said he had hidden in the sand with a cardboard box over his head to allow him to breathe. Times, Sunday Times
  • The boy breathed upon a mirror.
  • Try to breathe deeply and rhythmically.
  • I awoke to the sound of a heavy breather in the other bed.
  • Ran through the thin black air until she couldn't breathe.
  • Each breathes life into the poems with playful and vibrant paintings that capture the mood and lyricism of the poetry.
  • Panic sufferers usually tense their bodies and breathe in a way that increases symptoms.
  • He breathed in the frosty air.
  • The article breathes the spirit of the age.
  • `Well done, Lovell," breathed Moira O'Hara in awed admiration. THE WHITE DOVE
  • There's another story here of an oppressed people yearning to breathe free. Times, Sunday Times
  • Breathe fresh air, walk and drink room temperature water adding a twist of lemon.
  • Politics is the stuff I live and breathe.
  • Her gaze on the posy, cradled in its delicate box, she breathed in, exhaled, then picked up her reticule and turned. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
  • Just hoof it high into the stands and have a breather. Times, Sunday Times
  • So we can breathe a sigh of relief. The Sun
  • She holds the client steady and asks him to breathe in deeply.
  • A modern day rockabilly queen, May breathes new life into an old genre, and her use of a bodhran is a quirky touch that fits her highly percussive sound to a T. 's 24-year-old bright young thing Victoria Hesketh AKA Little Boots is being tipped by the Expecting Rain
  • The bichir and other primitive freshwater fish have a pouch opening from the gut to enable them to breathe air.
  • But as far as athletes and asthma inhalers are concerned, we can probably all breathe easy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Shapeshift into aquatic form . Increasing swim speed and allowing the druid to breathe underwater.
  • Just hoof it high into the stands and have a breather. Times, Sunday Times
  • No one was more grief-stricken by Lincoln's assassination than Stanton, who spoke the imperishable words as the president breathed his last: ‘Now he belongs to the ages.’
  • I read about three chapters of my book before I calmed down enough to breathe normally.
  • Because of his severe asthma, Aaron Neville is unable to breathe the air of his home. Archive 2009-02-01
  • Dancing dwarfs and fire breathers part the converging crowds.
  • He breathed a sigh of relief as he bumped over the crest.
  • The external plaster was replaced with a lime-based plaster to allow the stone rubble walls to breathe.
  • ‘Sounds simple enough,’ I breathed, beginning to sweat, ‘But what if I goof up?’
  • Surely the only necks you can breathe down in a tug of war are those of your own side? Times, Sunday Times
  • It turned out that she'd been the object of so much attention that she had to hide in the girls' room to get a breather.
  • We have to breathe in and out so many times a minute.
  • I breathe in the tanned, tattooed skin on his hard body, smelling of tobacco and the earth. Times, Sunday Times
  • She took a few gulps, breathed out and glanced at the scenery before her.
  • We know the air's unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit and watch our teevees while some local newscaster tells us today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it is supposed to be.
  • Derek squirmed and writhed, trying to breathe.
  • Close your eyes as you breathe and picture a calm place.
  • Ada kept her hand spread on her chest and breathed carefully with her mouth open.
  • * Maintenance *garbled* dation has mission impacted airborne opera *garbled* on most of air breather aircraft. Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile
  • The newborn is in fragile but hopeful condition; he's now able to breathe on his own. Bombs in Morelia
  • I'm telling you this in confidence so don't breathe a word of it.
  • - I do not think that (an abnormal amount of) oil is getting into the combustion chamber because I have nearly zero blowby in the IC/throttle, turbo inlet, or breather lines. NASIOC
  • It moves downward when we breathe in, enlarging the chest cavity and pulling air in through the nose or mouth.
  • The air is so thin here you need an oxygen tank to breathe. Christianity Today
  • While the moss is dried and not alive, you can breathe a sigh of relief knowing you never have to worry about it dying and disappearing when you forget to water it. Moss Table Adds a Micro-Landscape to Your Living Room | Inhabitat
  • Every creature that breathes
  • The tapestries on the walls looked as if a little life had been breathed into them; they became much more than a collection of stitches. Times, Sunday Times
  • BERLIN - The seven nations that have ordered the Airbus A400M military transporter would be willing to contribute a maximum of euro2 billion ($2.81 billion) in extra Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg increased the pressure on aerospace firm EADS going into crucial negotiations Thursday in Berlin about the company's Markets give Greece a breather on EU rescue hopes * EU countries, led by WN.com - Articles related to EU to sue France over Sarkozy telecoms tax
  • The doctor told him to breathe in deeply and then breathe out.
  • Remember that books need to breathe.
  • Breathe naturally, lout slowly, silently repeating your focus word or phrase every time you exhale.
  • He was finding it painful to breathe.
  • Breathe the air out slowly and steadily.
  • This city is alive and breathes in all its weirdo coolness.
  • I breathed a sigh of relief that the boy had been found safe.
  • This particular editor saw genius in the works where meticulous historical research combined with a quality of writing that breathed new life into the dusty genre of ‘historical fiction.’
  • The town held its collective breathe while the Government appointed a commissioner to come and sort it all out.
  • 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
  • Who with their drowfy, flow, and flagging wings Clip dead mens graves; and from their milty jaws Breathe foul contagious darknefs in the air. The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected
  • He is reliant on a 6,000 ventilator machine to breathe. Times, Sunday Times
  • Expiratory stridor -- This occurs when your child breathes out and it indicates a problem further down the windpipe. Stridor (Noisy Breathing)
  • The mentor stands over you and helps you relax and breathe during the painful contractions while your dream is in labor.
  • He breathed in huge gulps of air as the heavy pounding flooded his ears, the pounding of his heart and the harsh gasps of air.
  • Apparently pugs so overbred not only can they not breathe but their eyeballs pop out all the time. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
  • Taking a step back, Joel felt a cold fear clutch at his chest as he forced himself to breathe.
  • The high altitudes of Tibet make it difficult for us to breathe.
  • The feeling of suspicion faded as soon as she breathed the cool air of the night, the cigar smoke fading into a memory as she moved forward, raising her hood over her curls.
  • Looks like I am gravitating towards the relative calm, uncommercialised sanity of the new-age-goddess-wisdom-crone corner of the interwebby for a breather. Archive 2009-03-01
  • The older man was beginning to wheeze as he breathed.
  • She wanted to breathe the cool breath of great winds coming over the water to cool this fierce fire of shame and horror fevering her soul, flaming in her delicate cheeks. Little Lost Sister
  • PRIME ministers rejig their cabinets for various reasons: to breathe fresh life into reform efforts, to reward favoured ministers and punish others, to send voters or markets a signal of intent.
  • Coming slowly on through the forests of masts was a great steamship, beating the water in short impatient strokes with her heavy paddles as though she wanted room to breathe, and advancing in her huge bulk like a sea monster among the minnows of the Thames. The Old Curiosity Shop
  • During his twelve years in Congress he has tussled with the chemical, drug and power companies on behalf of the ordinary person's right to breathe clean air.
  • Open-mouthed and stale-breathed, they greet the day with a groan.
  • 30 sec each of pec fly, bear crawl, press-ups, with a 10 sec breather. Times, Sunday Times

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