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
• As described in the book by Weissmuller’s son, swimmers generally take a breath by moving their head from side to side, or up and down.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2024
• He was charged with DWI, driving while ability impaired and refusing to take a breath test.
  — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 18 Mar. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024