How to Use breathe in a Sentence

breathe

verb
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Synonyms for breathenext
  • He wants to live where he can breathe clean air.
  • Breathe deeply and then exhale.
  • I can hardly breathe with all this smoke.
  • He was breathing hard from running.
  • I'll never give up as long as I'm still breathing.
  • The patient suddenly stopped breathing.
  • People usually contract the virus by breathing contaminated air.
  • Go to the park, look at the trees, and breathe in fresh air.
    — Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com, 27 July 2022
  • The songs have the space to breathe, and the time to develop.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Close your eyes, breathe deeply, and feel the stress melt away.
    — Dulce Moncada, Glamour, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The song seemed like breathing for the 21-year-old singer.
    — Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Roll down the windows and breathe in the brisk, salty air.
    — Tim Zientek, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Set your sights on the changing leaves and breathe in the crisp air.
    — Terri Huggins Hart, Woman's Day, 24 June 2022
  • To do it, breathe in for three steps and out for two steps.
    — Jessica Migala, Health.com, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Pat removed the bands and begged each child to breathe.
    — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
  • And not just for those of those who live, breathe, eat, sleep and love movies.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2022
  • First things first, take a moment to pause and breathe.
    — Suzanne Ricard-Greenway, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Then, close the right nostril and breathe out through the left nostril.
    — Emilia Benton, SELF, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The sky is silent; his mom and sister breathe steady on the other side of the wood wall.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 9 July 2020
  • But with its head free to breathe, the bear swam away, the sun setting in the background.
    — Genevieve Redsten, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 June 2020
  • The men to his sides were screaming for help and struggling to breathe.
    — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Let your tongue fall into the back of your throat and breathe through your nose.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The man labored to breathe, then could no longer do it on his own.
    — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Not that the show tends to give its performances room to breathe.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Maske had a large amount of blood on his neck and chest and was not breathing.
    — Tim Speier, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Your hair feels lighter, your neck can breathe and all those split ends get dumped in the trash.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The movie’s incidents don’t breathe the air of any world.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Store in paper bag, not plastic, since the nuts need to breathe.
    — Karl Merton Ferron, baltimoresun.com, 8 Oct. 2021
  • This doesn’t mean that consumers can breathe easily, far from it.
    — Davey Winder, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Carbon monoxide is an odorless and colorless gas that can build up in enclosed or partially enclosed spaces, poisoning people and animals who breathe in too much, the CDC says.
    — Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2024

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