Up shot a rocket, drawing the children's breaths skyward with it in long-drawn "A-ahs!
It was so still in the room Claire would have thought the boy had fallen asleep, worn out with his struggles, but for the quick, catching breaths that, like soundless sobs, escaped him every now and then.
At parties these are always a couple of hot breaths of passion fanning your neck.
His chest rose and fell rapidly, deep, gasping breaths wracking his body.
I have no more feeling of sickness than I have on the Ohio River at home," said Mrs. Brown, taking deep breaths of the bracing salt air.
I am taking your prescription in large doses: deep full breaths of happiness and great brimming bowls of it.
But in this lonely path all was silence and woody fragrance; the honeysuckles threw breaths across their path; tall orchises, white and stately, broke here and there from the darkness of the banks.
They resumed their pacing, Kieran with head high in the air, inhaling deep breaths of the fresh salt air.
His laughter and her breathsof suspense, I could hear the one and feel the other.
And now we left the steamy jungle and breathed the mountain air; the sailors stood up and took deep breaths of it, and thought of their own far off Acroctian hills on which were Durl and Duz--below them in the plains stands fair Belzoond.
She and Alix ran downstairs before supper, and into the garden, and Cherry drew deep, refreshing breaths of the cool air and laughed over every bush and flower.
They, too, were his, and again he took long, deep breaths of a delight so keen that it made his pulses leap.
The trisail was quickly set, the other sails being left tightly furled, and with the engine helping to push us in the desired direction, we drew deep breaths of relief as we moved out into the free water to the westward.
The frost which was condensed out of our breaths made slabs of ice on the floor, and this required occasional removal.
In fact, the new-comer was in the habit of drawing long breaths at the end of each sentence, a habit he had acquired in singing; and these breaths were almost like the roaring of a wild beast.
For these prisoners of the week, the almanac with its closed prison-like gratings opens at regular intervals into luminous spaces, with breaths of refreshing air.
They started off early, drawing in great breaths of the pure morning air, relieved to be away from the odors of the "Queen's Hotel.
But he had only begun to enjoy the refreshing breaths of cool air, and had remarked to A Hoa that the days reminded him of Canadian summers, when the weather gave him to understand that every Formosan season has its drawbacks.
There was nothing else to be seen but the limitless sea of wheat as far as the eye could reach, dry, rustling, crisp and harsh in the rare breaths of hot wind out of the southeast.
I got as far as the Kern River, but they turned me back," he said between breaths as he drank.
Nothing moved about him but the invisible, slow-passing breaths of perfume; yet he felt the approach of the Vision.
Their long arms and golden tresses waved languishingly downward in the breeze; their eyes glittered like diamonds; their breaths perfumed the air.
Boarding the train just as it was about to start, he settled himself in the back seat of the smoker, lit a cigar, inhaling deep breaths of the smoke and scarcely noticing an acquaintance who greeted him from the aisle.
Then she took three long, deep breaths and then she jumped out of bed quickly, right on her toes.
Illustration] [Illustration] All the other objects upon the shelf on the back of the stove held their breaths to think such an important object deigned to talk to them.
He took several deep breaths when out of the commandant's office.
The woods were soon deep about them, and they drank deep breaths from the forest-perfumed air.
Springtime, the flowers, the earth turning green, the singing of birds, and the sweet breaths in the air were bringing him back to that great yesterday when he had belonged to Nepeese.
He could hear the last gaspingbreaths leaving the warm body, and he snarled and tugged until finally he fell back with a mouthful of fur.
Rubicund faces; breaths odorous of brandy-and-water.
She spoke slowly with breaths between, as though the heaviness of her heart made talking an effort.
The loosening of the tension as he talked evidenced itself in audible breaths and growing smiles upon every face.
Then Balin smote him again with that unhappy sword, and well-nigh had felled his brother Balan, and so they fought there together till their breaths failed.
And when they had stricken so together long, then they left their strokes, and foined at their breaths and visors; and when they saw that that might not prevail them, then they hurtled together like rams to bear either other down.
She drew long breathsand broke into song with the birds.
Already he had recommenced the exploration, gingerly removing some wires wrapped about the explosive center, while we almost held our breaths lest he touch the wrong thing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "breaths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
