How to Use breath in a Sentence

breath

noun

• My mad dash for the bus left me gasping for breath.
• I took a long breath before speaking again.
• It's so cold outside that I can see my breath.
• The view from the crest of the hill will take your breath away — or was that just the steep climb to the top?
  — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2024
• But first comes the deep breath of a six-day All-Star break.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
• The first is to take a deep breath and resist the urge to panic.
  — Sunset Magazine, 16 Nov. 2022
• If all else fails, take a break and some long, deep breaths.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
• The only thing that can get me from here to there is my breath.
  — Cory Richards, Outside Online, 7 July 2024
• Many times — not all the time — there will be up to a minute between breaths.
  — David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
• Jake is forced to watch as Neteyam's eyes droop with his last breath.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2022
• If the climb to the top doesn't take your breath away, the 360-degree views from the top certainly will.
  — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 3 Feb. 2024
• Hold the position that feels best for you and take three to five deep breaths.
  — Dana Santas, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
• Take a deep breath and don't get sucked into the frenzy.
  — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 8 Nov. 2022
• While waiting for the race to start, Martinez takes a few deep breaths.
  — Ana Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2024
• For just a beat, the air in the room seemed to tense up around us, as six hundred birds held their breath.
  — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• Don’t hold your breath When will our summer of smoke end?
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 July 2023
• But the process meant every breath and sound was captured.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
• What's the secret to holding your breath like 'Avatar' star Kate Winslet?
  — USA TODAY, 15 May 2023
• Scores of children trudged around, their breaths twisting up on the frosty air.
  — Monisha Rajesh, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2023
• Deep breaths can help, or mantras that a parent will be there to pick them up.
  — Taylor Grothe, Parents, 10 Dec. 2024
• Our hot breaths were like cloudbursts in the thin Andean air.
  — Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2023
• There's nothing about it that didn't take my breath away.
  — David Chiu, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• After each use, my teeth and gums felt clean, while my breath was nice and fresh.
  — Emily Algar, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2023
• Outside the stage, a few doubled over to rest their hands on their knees and catch their breath.
  — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2024
• He’s been on oxygen for more than a decade and quickly gets short of breath.
  — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2024
• Paul came over with chocolate breath and handed her the phone.
  — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• The stakes are high, yet somehow not worth holding your breath over.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023
• Lyles came off the track on a wheelchair at the Stade de France and felt lightheaded and short of breath.
  — Sean Gregory / Saint Denis, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
• Volume One is a wry joke: don’t hold your breath for Volume Two.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 25 Dec. 2024
• Abraham’s dancers can sink down through the knees into the floor and in the next breath push up into lightness and flight, without making a show of it.
  — Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Jan 2025