draw breath

Example Sentences

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In UK law, an unborn baby does not become a separate person with legal rights until they are born and draw breath by themselves.

From BBC • May 19, 2023

Millennia later, the mechanical organs of the 16th century would use the force of flowing water to draw breath into their bellows.

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2023

The images showed how Floyd tried to use his shoulder muscles to draw breath, the doctor said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2021

It is certainly possible that Diego Armando Maradona, who died Wednesday at age 60, was the finest soccer player ever to draw breath, though that is a subject of hot and unyielding debate.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2020

“No outsider,” he told his foes, “has ever set eyes on the forbidden city. And as long as I draw breath, none ever will.”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor