in the same breath

ADVERB
  1. almost simultaneously
    she praised and criticized him in the same breath
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How To Use in the same breath In A Sentence

  • As to preaching, by your own command I have been a hundred times _preaching_, and have forbidden people to follow several of the roads which lead to your territories, and yet silently, in the same breath, have led them hither safe enough, by some other vain paths; as I have done by preaching lately in Germany, and in one of the Faroe isles, and various other places. The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell
  • It appears to be clear that this activity is traveling north, and the residents of the West Coast should not panic, but in the same breath, should make sure they have proper stores of food and water, battery operated radios, and a good first-aid kit should a devastating quake hit California, or worse, if the "Cascadia Subduction Zone" or Mount Rainier, which is a "stratovolcano" and is one of the most dangerous volcanoes, except for Yellowstone's "Super Volcano" suddenly become active. Update On Earthquakes And Volcanic Activity Marching Northward
  • Oh! you are puttier than ever, Miss Euly!" said she, laughing and crying in the same breath, "and just as good -- better you couldn't be. The Planter's Northern Bride
  • I became nervous when the doctor mentioned my mother's name and 'cancer' in the same breath.
  • The notion that someone like Évariste Galois or Emmy Noether and they really do need to be mentioned in the same breath might be out there, but bored to tears by a math class they comprehended long ago or discouraged by various factors, is really astonishing to behold. Archive 2008-09-01
  • I became nervous when the doctor mentioned my mother's name and 'cancer' in the same breath.
  • Jill said she couldn't afford new clothes, yet in the same breath described the new outfIt'she'd just bought.
  • You tell me in the same breath that it is useless to investigate the matter, and that you desire me to do it.
  • Jill said she couldn't afford new clothes, yet in the same breath described the new outfit she'd just bought.
  • In the same breath I say the government and police are the ones responsible for solving or abating the situation.
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