How to Use breathe in a Sentence

breathe

verb
  • He wants to live where he can breathe clean air.
  • Breathe deeply and then exhale.
  • I can hardly breathe with all this smoke.
  • He was breathing hard from running.
  • I'll never give up as long as I'm still breathing.
  • The patient suddenly stopped breathing.
  • People usually contract the virus by breathing contaminated air.
  • Go to the park, look at the trees, and breathe in fresh air.
    Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com, 27 July 2022
  • The songs have the space to breathe, and the time to develop.
    Liza Lentini, SPIN, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Close your eyes, breathe deeply, and feel the stress melt away.
    Dulce Moncada, Glamour, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The song seemed like breathing for the 21-year-old singer.
    Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Set your sights on the changing leaves and breathe in the crisp air.
    Terri Huggins Hart, Woman's Day, 24 June 2022
  • To do it, breathe in for three steps and out for two steps.
    Jessica Migala, Health.com, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Pat removed the bands and begged each child to breathe.
    Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
  • And not just for those of those who live, breathe, eat, sleep and love movies.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2022
  • First things first, take a moment to pause and breathe.
    Suzanne Ricard-Greenway, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Then, close the right nostril and breathe out through the left nostril.
    Emilia Benton, SELF, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The sky is silent; his mom and sister breathe steady on the other side of the wood wall.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 9 July 2020
  • But with its head free to breathe, the bear swam away, the sun setting in the background.
    Genevieve Redsten, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 June 2020
  • The men to his sides were screaming for help and struggling to breathe.
    New York Times, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Let your tongue fall into the back of your throat and breathe through your nose.
    Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The man labored to breathe, then could no longer do it on his own.
    Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Not that the show tends to give its performances room to breathe.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Your hair feels lighter, your neck can breathe and all those split ends get dumped in the trash.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The movie’s incidents don’t breathe the air of any world.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Store in paper bag, not plastic, since the nuts need to breathe.
    Karl Merton Ferron, baltimoresun.com, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Prepare to breathe in the deep, rich and woody fumes from your crackling fire!
    Nishka Dhawan, USA TODAY, 2 May 2021
  • From here, inhale through your nose and breathe in the scent of nature around you.
    Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 29 July 2022
  • The suit claims the pair's new seats gave the dogs less space to breathe and that airline employees ignored their concerns.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The Dodgers breathed a collective sigh of relief on Sunday.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024

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