breathing
Example Sentences
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Mrs. Pritchard was a mite plump, so she was breathing hard by the time she caught up with me.
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But if breathing could make people happy, shouldn’t everyone be happy, because everyone breathed?
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I heard his breathing slow, and I thought he’d fallen asleep.
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“In these extreme situations, you got to stake your claim,” said Nordquist, breathing a frozen sigh of relief in the single-digit air.
His mother suffers from a serious lung condition and has difficulty breathing.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.