don't breathe a word

Example Sentences

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There you are with your comrades, every month, bold as brass, unapologetically coming to do your disruptive thing to me and my sisters and we don’t breathe a word.

From The Guardian • Sep. 4, 2019

There's ever such a hullabaloo going on about it all at home, but I look absolutely stolid and don't breathe a word.

From The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life by Brazil, Angela

Keep your own counsel in the matter, and don't breathe a word about your intentions to anybody.

From The Water Ghost and Others by Bangs, John Kendrick

But till then, don't let this be seen, and don't breathe a word of what I have told you.

From The Rider of Waroona by Scott, G. Firth

I'll see it into the bag, and mind you don't breathe a word of this.

From The Boy Patriot by Ellis, Edward Sylvester