breathing

Example Sentences

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When it finally ended — I can’t remember who won — we just stood there, paddles lowered, breathing hard.

From Los Angeles Times

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 The Wall Street Journal

But the inventories China built up over the past several years are giving the market breathing room.

From Barron's

Gabi’s come over to hang out and work on our family trees, and I’m glad I can spend time with her without my parents breathing down our necks.

From Literature