breathing room

Example Sentences

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And did he deliver with a drive that rolled to the right-field fence off pitcher Hudson December and finally gave the Patriots breathing room.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

"The thing that makes him so good is you get no breathing room from any corner," said Norway's Casper Ruud, who lost 6-4 6-4 to Sinner in the Rome final last week.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

That should give the economy more breathing room as many households feel the pinch of increased inflation — average gas prices are at $4.5 a gallon on Wednesday, up 44% from a year ago.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

But private pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies don’t have the breathing room the NIH has to fund longer-term research that may not produce results for many years—and even then, those results may not be commercializable.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

I hadn’t exactly planned it that way, but the more serious things got at camp, the more I found myself needing to call up Rachel and get away, just for some breathing room.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan