How to Use short of breath in a Sentence

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• And not the kind of tears that can be wiped away with a flick of the wrist, but the sort of heavy sob that leaves you short of breath, with your head between your knees.
  — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Sep. 2022
• Something as simple as climbing the stairs would leave him trembling and short of breath.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 18 June 2020
• Someone had to break into the bathroom to check on him after Logan was short of breath.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2023
• Getting dressed in the morning takes most of her strength, and longer conversations leave her short of breath.
  — oregonlive, 9 July 2020
• Thunderous blasts from mines crack the concrete facades of their homes, while plumes of dust leave their children short of breath.
  — John Eligon, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2022
• The next spring, Senator Chuck Schumer accompanied his wife, who had a fever and was short of breath, to the emergency room.
  — Jessica Silver-Greenberg, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2022
• Or Debbie Sabo, 68, who was so weak and short of breath from coronavirus, her daughter called for an ambulance to bring her to the hospital.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 28 Dec. 2020
• The slim, blond 22-year-old was growing increasingly short of breath during her daily runs, but doctors couldn’t pinpoint the cause.
  — Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2016
• Previous research has shown that gas stoves in California homes emit nitrogen oxides, which can irritate the eyes, the nose, the throat or the lungs and can cause some people to feel tired, dizzy or short of breath.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2022
• Gokal said he was faced with two options: throwing away the last dose, or administering it to his wife, who suffers from pulmonary sarcoidosis, a lung disease that leaves her short of breath and that can be fatal.
  — Natacha Larnaud, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2021
• Signs of pneumonia or other lung damage could be detected in scans before a patient feels short of breath, but the president's doctors declined to say what those scans have revealed.
  — Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2020
• Signs of pneumonia or other lung damage could be detected in scans before a patient feels short of breath, but the president’s doctors declined to say what those scans have revealed.
  — Jill Colvin, chicagotribune.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• That leaves Juanico, who is 66 years old and now can barely crest the slope at her ancestral home overlooking bluffs where explosions once raged without becoming short of breath, concerned for her own health.
  — Eli Cahan, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2022
• While no dog is truly hypoallergenic, there's a threshold at which people with allergies tend to react to the dander (or dead skin cells) or saliva that causes sufferers to feel itchy, sneezy or short of breath.
  — Katarina Avendano, Good Housekeeping, 25 Aug. 2022
• University of Michigan experts say fluid buildup can lead to the following symptoms of congestive heart failure: Being short of breath and winded during exercise or at rest because of the extra fluid in your lungs.
  — Beth Krietsch, SELF, 14 Feb. 2022
• But some, including children with asthma, can become short of breath and have low oxygen levels, requiring hospitalization.
  — Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
• Officers eventually arrested him and Nichols allegedly began to complain about being short of breath.
  — Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
• Wachter cautions that some fraction of vaccinated individuals who get infected—which one study estimates to be around 5 percent and possibly higher—may continue to feel short of breath or fatigued or think less clearly than before.
  — Devabhaktuni Srikrishna, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024