Example sentences for: breath

How can you use “breath” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Magic is signified by levitating people à la Mary Poppins , playing wind-chimes on the soundtrack or flooding a scene with dry ice" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). Roger Ebert (who manages to work the odd sexual euphemism "the old rumpy-pumpy" into his review for the second time in three months) defends the movie as fun fluff: "The movie is as light as a soufflé, as fleeting as a breath of pumpkin pie on the breeze from a widow's window" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). (This fan site has loads of pictures of the lovely Miss Gellar.)

  • During the week after JFK Jr.'s death I heard a slew of talk-show hosts praise "the Kennedy family, our nation's premier political dynasty" in one breath, and condemn Hillary's candidacy in the next, on the grounds that she is cynically leveraging her husband's name and connections to get herself elected.

  • (With an expulsion of breath, and going down at the end: He'll be lucky to go anywhere today, with all this fog... it's far too thick.)

  • You could mistake her for an ordinary, unaffected nerd, except that the genius Barrymore timing is in every breath, every screwy inflection, every pratfall.

  • Several male columnists ignore most of the championship game and focus on the game-ending goal by American defender Brandi Chastain--"a shootout, womano a womano," with "one winner, one loser, everybody holding their breath."


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