breathe
Example Sentences
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Researchers have also found that increasing the amount of a partially functional mutant MeCP2 protein can lead to improvements in survival, movement, and breathing problems in mice.
From Science Daily
When it finally ended — I can’t remember who won — we just stood there, paddles lowered, breathing hard.
From Los Angeles Times
I did not move, did not breathe, did not think or do anything.
From Literature
He followed the ridge until he came close to the stretch of flat ice and the breathing hole where the seal had shown its head.
From Literature
They aimed to retain the “breathing units” of biblical speech, even if that meant straining German with Hebraic syntax; the criteria, Mendes-Flohr observes, were “not aesthetic but, as it were, respiratory.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
