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
• 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
• Take a moment to breathe, and encourage your team to do the same.
  — Gloria Horsley, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2022
• In the hall, one heard the special sound of some 400 people not breathing.
  — Jeremy Yudkin, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
• Stay in close touch with loved ones, ramp up the self-care and remember to breathe.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 29 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 7 May 2024