Breathing

//ˈbɹiːðɪŋ//

"Breathing" in a Sentence (15 examples)

I can hear the soft breathing.

These special characteristics explain its preference for still-hunting (lying motionless beside a seal's breathing hole, waiting for one to surface).

The seals surface more frequently then, so a bear's chance of catching one at a breathing hole is greater after nightfall.

When dreams begin, breathing becomes irregular and less deep.

I have difficulty breathing.

Is he breathing?

A man who asks his wife's permission before taking any action except breathing is a henpecked husband.

Somebody's breathing on my face. It's disgusting.

Pneumonia causes difficulty in breathing.

His breathing became faint.

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[…] their breathings, cryings, and excretings would have been damaged […]

DON PEDRO. Count Claudio, when mean you to go to church? / CLAUDIO. To-morrow, my lord. Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites. / LEONATO. Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just seven-night; and a time too brief too, to have all things answer my mind. / DON PEDRO. Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing; but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us.

the breathings of the Holy Spirit

Let us then begin Heaven here, in the Frame and Temper of our Minds, in our heavenly Affections and Converſation; in a due Prepation for, and in earneſt Deſires and Breathings after that bleſſed State vvhich vve firmly believe and aſſuredly hope to be one day poſſeſſed of: […]

Elantris is quite an exceptional read, a wonderfully rich world of living breathing characters, great plot, and some very original ideas.

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