How to Use take a breath in a Sentence

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  • But this is no time to pause, take a breath and reflect.
    Guy Courtin, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Blandin asked her mother to take a breath and start again.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2023
  • In one scene, her husband slaps her and tells her to take a breath.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2022
  • If any of these sound like you, just take a breath and try to take it one day at a time.
    Women's Health, 8 May 2023
  • This just scratches the surface, but take a breath with me here.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 14 July 2023
  • There was a moment in the early 2000s when Ben Gibbard seemed to take a breath.
    Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The calf swam up in the background, just as Iliya was preparing to head back to the surface to take a breath.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • To take a breath, the turtle stretches its neck up to the water’s surface to take a gulp of air.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2022
  • This summer feels like the first time in years that schools and parents have had the ability to step back and take a breath.
    Mike McShane, Forbes, 15 July 2022
  • Everyone stepped up, not let the moment get to them, just kind of relax, take a breath and said.
    oregonlive, 8 June 2023
  • What ends up happening is your mouth and your whole body gets used to saying the words and learns things, like where to take a breath.
    Thomas Page, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Here’s a look at what is trending up and down as the Hoosiers get time to take a breath just after the Big Ten season’s midpoint.
    Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Feb. 2022
  • So the first rule of figuring out the new food waste rules is to take a breath and realize these programs are a work in progress.
    Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Why not close your eyes, take a breath, and be transported to your favorite places around the globe with scents that capture their essence?
    Shivani Vora, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Her advice to anyone reading the study and feeling called out by the results is to take a breath and go within.
    Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The woman refused to take a breath test and had her license suspended.
    cleveland, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Two, there are a lot of things to figure out, so a break now allows everyone to take a breath and get those things in order.
    Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Oct. 2022
  • There’s no chance for anyone — players, fans or coaches — to take a breath, focus and enjoy one event because the next one is about to start.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • Grant also refused to take a breath test after his arrest, and his license was revoked for a year.
    Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2023
  • Grant also refused to take a breath test after his arrest, and his license was revoked for a year.
    Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2023
  • Meanwhile, Bittner is always trying to get her clients to take a breath of fresh air—many of them come from the tech industry, after all.
    Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 19 Jan. 2023
  • After a minute, Talley saw Murphy come back up to take a breath of air before going back down into the water.
    Michael Krohn, oregonlive, 3 May 2022
  • Villanova is a program built on redshirts, giving them a year to take a breath and bolster weaknesses, either on the court or in the weight room.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
  • After all, my travels often involve getting off the plane, hitting the ground running, barely stopping to take a breath.
    Jeanine Barone, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • But the problem with using aeration as a proxy for proof of life, many medical experts argue, is that babies don’t have to take a breath for air to enter their lungs.
    Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2023
  • But those challenges, as well as the current environment of precariousness, have led him to take a breath and reassess.
    Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Ito opens proceedings with an unusual trigger warning, advising any viewers unnerved by the traumas raised in her film to close their eyes and take a breath.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
  • For Schwartz, the live performance in Atlanta last week presented two main challenges: playing a piece of music for the very first time in front of an audience, and figuring out where among the nonstop notes to take a breath.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
  • This type of sleep apnea results from the brain not communicating during sleep to the respiratory muscles to take a breath, and so there are pauses in breathing.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 29 June 2023
  • The last few years have been trying to say the least, but a certain type of relief arrives in the spring of 2023, giving you space to take a breath and pour back into yourself—consider this the time to take your rejuvenating vacation.
    Kirah Tabourn, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Dec. 2022

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