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How to use breathing in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective

Breathing means a diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof. Example: “Napoleon’s ashes are not yet extinguished, and we’re breathing in their sparks.”

Examples of breathing by meaning

nounAny gentle influence or operation; inspiration.

  • the breathings of the Holy Spirit

adjectiveHaving life; living; alive.

  • Elantris is quite an exceptional read, a wonderfully rich world of living breathing characters, great plot, and some very original ideas.2011 December 13, Antony Jones, “Book review of 'Elantris' by Brandon Sanderson”, in SF Book

More sentences with breathing

  • Napoleon’s ashes are not yet extinguished, and we’re breathing in their sparks.From the entry ash
  • With all the heavy breathing going on the windows were quickly steamed in the car.From the entry steam
  • Don't stand around in there breathing the fumes while the adhesive cures.From the entry fume
  • At the end of the marathon, her laboured breathing told us she was exhausted.From the entry laboured
  • The synchronized swimmers did everything together, even breathing at the same time.From the entry synchronized
  • Don't fret, in our division you get a lot of breathing space.From the entry breathing space
  • I answered the phone, but it was only heavy breathing from that pervert again.From the entry heavy breathing
  • As well as the obvious financial benefits, the merger will allow us some breathing room with regards to R&D.From the entry as well as
  • Gurdjieff connects this type of breathing with yogi breathing.From the entry yogi
  • My boss never lets me get on with my work. He's always breathing down my neck and checking up on me.From the entry breathe down someone's neck
  • Breathing typically has a high degree of rhythmicity.From the entry rhythmicity
  • He was breathing bulllike from anger.From the entry bulllike
  • He was breathing bull-like from anger.From the entry bull-like
  • The firefighters put on breathing apparatus and managed to find the injured.2026 March 18, Greg Morse, “1996 crash driving freight reforms”, in RAIL, number 1057, page 51. From the entry overcome
  • We can create more breathing room by borrowing a few concepts from the Japandi design style.2023, Olga Trusova, Calm Living: Simple Design Transformations to Fill Your Spaces with Tranquility, Chronicle Books, page 103. From the entry Japandi
  • How do you explain something as natural and automatic to you as breathing?!"2021 November 10, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Nov 10, 2021. From the entry automatic
  • People in 14 Indian cities are breathing the world’s most toxic air.2018 May 2, Sandipan Sharma, “WHO Report on Pollution: Politicos Playing Petty Politics while People Choke, Citizens Need to Demand More”…. From the entry boiling frog
  • I run my hands over his chest, assessing his ABCs: airway, breathing, circulation.2015, Marcia Wells, Eddie Red Undercover: Mystery in Mayan Mexico, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 180. From the entry ABC
  • Deep breathing in your baby’s ear is just as effective as white noise, if not more.2015, Chireal Shallow, The Gentle Sleep Solution: The Naturally Nurturing Way to Help Your Baby Sleep, Vermilion, →ISBN, “Deep breathe…. From the entry shh
  • His breathing, irregular for three, then four, then five breaths, returned to its normal, soundless rhythm.2014, Samuel R. Delany, Tales of Nevèrÿon, →ISBN. From the entry underlip
  • A serious charge back then when bigotry was as natural to Southern Democrats as breathing.2014, Kristina Townsend, FOX NEWS NUTS? (Unfair & Unbalanced for over 200 years), Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry grandcestor
  • The air around me clouds up with my hurried breathing, mixed in with my dog team.2013, Heather Terrell, Chronicle: Before the Books of Eva, →ISBN. From the entry sinik
  • The prescription painkiller Emily Jackson took is a respiratory depressant that slows breathing.2012 November 15, Maxwell Newfield, “Prescription drug deaths: Two stories”, in CNN. From the entry depressant
  • “That hooligan gaffled my wallet,” Seth told Mort, his breathing now back to near normal.2012, Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain, Murder, She Wrote: Domestic Malice. From the entry gaffle
  • Wrestling and swordsmanship both have a long history, as do Chinese Internal Alchemy and breathing methods.[2009, Dan Docherty, Tai Chi Chuan: Decoding the Classics for the Modern Martial Artist, Crowood Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 11. From the entry taijiquan
  • Further, a workable transcription will note sublexical elements such as breathing noise and laughter.2008, Gerd Antos, Eija Ventola, Handbook of Interpersonal Communication, page 35. From the entry sublexical
  • Breathing is a natural and automatic function that does better without constant conscious attention.2007, Paul M. Lehrer, Robert L. Woolfolk, Wesley E. Sime, Principles and Practice of Stress Management, Third Edition, page 298. From the entry overconsciousness
  • I am breathing the breath of a gourmand, I am breathing the breath of vocal common-sense.2007, Richard Price, “Tube Shelter Perspective”, in Greenfields, Manchester: Carcanet Press, →ISBN, page 66. From the entry common-sense
  • I am breathing the breath of a man with an oatflake on the dent of his lip.2007, Richard Price, “Tube Shelter Perspective”, in Greenfields, Manchester: Carcanet Press, →ISBN, page 66. From the entry oatflake
  • Everyone was breathing hard, and there was a barny smell in the room.2006, W. S. Merwin, Summer Doorways: A Memoir, page 210. From the entry barny
  • Cindy is beside him suddenly, breathing in rhythm with the slipslop of the sea.2006, John Updike, Rabbit is Rich, →ISBN. From the entry slipslop
  • I'm breathing shallow and fast and grinning, all symptoms of Beetlemania.2006, James Barilla, West With the Rise: Fly-Fishing Across America, Charlottesville, V.A.; London: University of Virginia Press, →ISBN…. From the entry beetlemania
  • 'We'd better get under cover before it starts raining,' he said, breathing heavily.2005, Martin Sketchley, Affinity Trap. From the entry rainburn
  • I wore a blue cheche to filter sand out of the air I was breathing.2003. "Outside" Magazine. Outside 25: Classic Tales and New Voices from the Frontiers of Adventure, W. W. Norton & Company, page 14. From the entry cheche
  • Take one or two and everything - breathing, heartrate, thinking - slows down.2001 October 14, Jason Burke, “Death of a princess”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry heartrate
  • He was breathing stertorously, his throat and chest juddering like those of an asthmatic.2000, Mark Gatiss, “chapter 20”, in Last of the Gaderene. From the entry judder
  • I check to make sure he's breathing and give his shoulder a little shove.2000 July 26, Emma Trelles, “I want a new drug. Orlando area news”, in Orlando Weekly, retrieved 21 May 2023. From the entry pseudoconscious
  • The Sergeant stood hulkingly, breathing heavily, by the end of the bed.1999, Lois McMaster Bujold, Cordelia's Honor. From the entry hulkingly

Meaning of breathing

  1. noun A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof.
  2. noun Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time.
  3. noun Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration.

Full definition of breathing

Questions about breathing in a sentence

How do you use breathing in a sentence?
Breathing is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Napoleon’s ashes are not yet extinguished, and we’re breathing in their sparks.”
What is a short sentence with breathing?
“He was breathing bull-like from anger.”
What does breathing mean?
Breathing means a diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof.

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