[
US
/ˈbɹiðɝ/
]
[ UK /bɹˈiːðɐ/ ]
[ UK /bɹˈiːðɐ/ ]
NOUN
- air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time
- a short respite
How To Use breather In A Sentence
- Maybe you need a breather. The Sun
- I needed to take a breather after each concerto.
- Satisfied, we stopped to take a breather and admire our hard determination, or lack thereof.
- Wayne, you adorable homophobic mouthbreather you, stop being tiresome and crawl back under your rock. It’s different when Conservatives do it.
- Shirley should have seen bubbles burbling up as Shaw vented the expanding gases in his rebreather and drysuit.
- 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'
- Take a breather from paying interest: get a 0% card!
- Relax and take a breather whenever you feel that you need one.
- 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
- It is also a storehouse with new breathers, dosimeters and soviet propagandistic literature.
