Definition: 1. To take air into your lungs and send it out again through your nose or mouth. 2. Draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs. 3. Be alive. 4. Impart as if by breathing. 5. Allow the passage of air through. 6. Utter or tell.
Use 'breathe' in a sentence:
1. His breathing was steady.
2. She was so happy that she scarcely dared to breathe.
3. The boy's lungs cleared and he began to breathe more easily.
4. Heat makes it hard to breathe.
5. Her breathing was quick and uneven.
6. The sound of his breathing told her he was asleep.
7. You breathe less when you sleep, so you get less oxygen.
8. It was so heavy that I couldn't breathe.
9. Her breathing became steady and she fell asleep.
10. Oxygen could be used to breathe, and hydrogen could be turned into fuel, rocket fuel.
11. Lie flat and breathe deeply.
12. She was fast asleep, breathing evenly.
13. Her performance breathed wit and charm.
14. No American should have to drive out of town to breathe clean air.
15. Why was Hawking unable to speak or breathe without the help of machines?
16. Seals breathe air, but that doesn't stop some of them from sleeping underwater.
17. "But 'tis the air which enables thee to breathe," said the poet's voice.
18. I'm so happy I can scarcely breathe!
19. "Now they look as if they could breathe," she said after she had finished with the first ones.
20. All the competitors could breathe a sigh of relief at the ending of the fierce competition.
21. Heavy breathing was all I could hear.
22. With monetary mayhem now retreating into memory, European countries can breathe a collective sigh of relief.
23. He breathed deeply before speaking again.
24. I nearly suffocated when the pipe on my breathing apparatus came adrift.
25. Pythons kill by tightening their coils so that their victim cannot breathe.
26. It looked as if she had forgotten how to breathe.
27. Every morning we get up early, breathe the fresh air and hear the birds sing in the woods.
28. Breathe it and breathe it.
29. Plants produce air for humans to breathe and food to eat.
30. It makes them cough and they can't breathe.
31. He never breathed a word of this to me.
32. His illness is a result of breathing in paint fumes over many years.
33. It's important to learn how to breathe slowly before jumping rope.
34. He came up close, breathing alcohol fumes all over me.
35. Breathing such polluted air is the equivalent of smoking ten cigarettes a day.
36. However, similar changes occurred when the subjects were asked simply to open their mouths or to breathe deeply.
37. In fact, tunas must swim to breathe.
38. I could hear the sound of his ragged breathing.
39. He couldn't breathe. His chest was on fire.
40. He could scarcely breathe.
41. She observed the gentle movement of his chest as he breathed.
42. This delay gives the party a breathing space in which to sort out its policies.
43. It must stay awake to breathe and to watch for danger.
44. He was breathing through his open mouth.
45. They inserted a tube in his mouth to help him breathe.
46. Deep breathing exercises will help you relax.
47. The patient was perceived to have difficulty in breathing.
48. Firefighters needed breathing apparatus to enter the burning house.
49. She was now breathing heavily.
50. Breathing is an automatic function of the body.
51. Humans take in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide.
52. She was beginning to breathe more easily.
53. Cotton clothing allows your skin to breathe.
54. Cases of breathing difficulties increase in lockstep with air pollution.
