BREATHE in a Sentence

Learn BREATHE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
306 example sentences for BREATHE, such as:
1. While we breathe, there is hope.
2. The patient began to breathe normally.
3. She was beginning to breathe hard again.
4. You had to listen hard to hear the old man breathe.
5. We have to breathe in and out so many times a minute.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of BREATHE
breathe
 v.  impart as if by breathing
 v.  expel (gases or odors)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Scarlett obediently sat down before the tray, wondering if she would be able to get any food into her stomach and still have room to breathe.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  "I won't," he finally managed to breathe, never dreaming that she was thinking he looked like a calf waiting for the butcher.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  And if you so much as breathe to her where the fighting is, I'll sell you South as sure as gun's iron.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  She sank down on the steps of the church and buried her head in her hands until she could breathe more easily.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  The torturing stays no longer pinched her waist and she could breathe deeply and quietly to the bottom of her lungs and her abdomen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  When she thought of the possibility of this final insult to Tara, her heart pounded so hard she could scarcely breathe.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
7  She could not breathe; he was choking her; her stays were like a swiftly compressing band of iron; his arms about her made her shake with helpless hate and fury.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  At the mention of Melanie, Scarlett began to breathe hard and could scarcely restrain herself from crying out the whole story, that only honor kept Ashley with Melanie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
9  Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury; it was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
10  You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
11  But he would see clearer, breathe freer in her presence: she was at once the dead weight at his breast and the spar which should float them to safety.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
12  We sat and watched the long bowed back under the blue sheet, scarcely daring to breathe.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
13  She was beginning to breathe hard again.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
14  The young hounds go laughing and singing too much already through the woods, when they ought not to breathe louder than a fox in his cover.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
15  The younger men were content with touching his robe, or even drawing nigh his person, in order to breathe in the atmosphere of one so aged, so just, and so valiant.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
Example Sentence: (96 in 7 pages)
1  He has gone; you can breathe again.
2  While we breathe, there is hope.
3  At high altitudes of Tibet it is difficult to breathe.
4  The room filled with smoke, and it was becoming difficult to breathe.
5  They inserted a tube in his mouth to help him breathe.
6  It's good to breathe fresh country air instead of city smoke.
7  Do what makes you happy, be with who makes you smile, laugh as much as you breathe, and love as long as you live.
8  You had to listen hard to hear the old man breathe.
9  We have to breathe in and out so many times a minute.
10  The patient began to breathe normally.
11  Before going on stage, I breathe deeply and think positive thoughts.
12  He was pinned against the fence by a boy twice his size; he could hardly breathe.
13  When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.
14  He turned his ear to the moan of the gale which seemed to breathe out in wrath from the heart of the earth.
15  During the tadpole stage of the amphibian life cycle, most breathe by means of autonomous external or internal gills.