VERB
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draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs
I can breathe better when the air is clean
The patient is respiring
How To Use take a breath In A Sentence
- She did a few laps, and then at one end of the pool, stopped to take a breather and relax.
- City players rarely take a breather between moving from one organisation to the next. Times, Sunday Times
- If you take a breather you are finished. Times, Sunday Times
- For example, there are over 40 thriving clubs and societies on the island - hardly leaving time for visitors to take a breath.
- All US sailors and officers are now required to take a breath test before embarking on their ships. Times, Sunday Times
- I just wish somebody would trust us so we could get off the ground and she could take a breather.
- Relax and take a breather whenever you feel that you need one.
- So take a breath and get some experienced consultants. Times, Sunday Times
- I'm not able to get through right away so I take a breath and call the mister and do my best to let him know that I still have all my digits but there is a lot of blurd and I want to be sure so can he come home and gimme a ride? Oh the drama! a new year's day saga.
- So much gentler than dead baby or grey lifeless body, with the word birth even being a cruel hoax, since the child will never take a breath and their mother's soul will be forever changed by an immutable, indelible loss. Kate Grant: Tale Of Two Mothers
