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catch one's breath
verb as in take a short break
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Example Sentences
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No breaks, barely time to catch one’s breath.
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The sculpture symbolises the emergence from the pandemic and a moment to catch one's breath.
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Her film plunges viewers into this hothouse atmosphere so fully that it is hard to catch one's breath.
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A stroll through sculpture the garden never failed to let one catch one’s breath and lower the blood pressure.
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He ended by repeating that it was wonderful to find oneself “way out here” where one could, as it were, catch one's breath.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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