1
as in to respire
to inhale and exhale air
sometimes it gets so hot in here that it's hard to even breathe
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2
as in to live
to have life
as long as I breathe, you will have a place to stay
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Recent Examples of breathe
Stalling admitted to hearing the boy having trouble breathing.
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Jennifer Edwards Baker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Sep. 2025
When Mauthe woke up, according to the affidavit, the baby was underneath her and was not breathing.
—Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 24 Sep. 2025
The best available treatment for RSV today involves primarily supportive care, such as helping patients breathe more easily.
—Liz Szabo, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2025
Music only rewards the ones who live it, breathe it, eat it and drink it, night after night, until the world has no choice.
—Chris Cardillo, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
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Vegetables that respire at a higher rate keep better in the refrigerator crisper, where food retains more moisture than in the open space of the main refrigerator compartment, which can draw moisture out of produce.—
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Consider leafy vegetables, which immediately start to respire faster once they are cut.—
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Working to live and living to work?—
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After Willa’s bedroom was built onto the small house, the cottage was dressed to show the accumulation of the years the father and daughter had lived there.—
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Howard, still half-asleep, makes snuffling, snoring noises, and looks blearily at the camera.—
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By the time Cali finished her drink, Ronny was snoring.—
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There are 4,550 spaces allocated for residents, 2,100 spaces for entertainment center visitors and 390 spaces for store and restaurant patrons.—
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Now there are three locations (the newest in the Berryessa area near BART), and their first stand at Levi’s Stadium.—
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“Breathe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breathe. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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