Example sentences for: breathe

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

  • He needs a cane to walk and oxygen to breathe.

  • Science and technology are the tools that provide us with methods such as bioremediation for cleaning up oil spills, and data on the one-third of Americans who breathe polluted air.

  • And I was becoming quite comfortable with the whole German atmosphere, really--right up until the Lufthansa flight attendant showed me how to place the mask securely over my nose and mouth and breathe deeply.

  • Finally, when he learns that Judy has been murdered, he can barely breathe, his anguish seems nearly unendurable, but it's only a momentary spasm, he regains his soulless equanimity, and as he quietly intones his last lines--"The greatest pleasure in life [is] the sweet, ever-changing caress of an early evening breeze"--we realize we've witnessed the exquisitely ironic fusion of elegy and despair, the inseparable linking of a brilliant text and a superb performance.

  • The most controversial press release, on September 18, quoted EPA Administrator Christine Whitman as saying that the air was "safe" to breathe.


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