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Example sentences for "quick breath"

  • He heard the other's quick breath, caught the glow in his eyes, and his heart was thrilled.

  • One of them ran up his sleeve as they were eating supper, and he flung it from him with a strange, quick breath, his eyes blazing.

  • They shut off a quick breath, a gasp, the sharp surge of a sudden pain.

  • She drew a quick breath, one hand on her breast, and it seemed to me her voice trembled.

  • I drew a quick breath, fairly quivering under the sting of her words.

  • She drew in a quick breath, her face lifting.

  • Miss Benham looked up at him and away again, and she drew a quick breath.

  • Marie drew a quick breath, and his eyes began to flash as they had done a few moments before when he told Hartley that his feet were upon the ladder to the stars.

  • She drew a quick breath, looking at him, but after a moment she said: "Yes, it is true.

  • Barbara Stafford drew a quick breath, and walked on rapidly, making this an excuse for the long silence that followed.

  • The young man drew a quick breath; the enthusiasm and energy of the minister's speech, so uncalled for by the simple question he had put, startled him not a little.

  • But her heart was in her work, and she drew the thread through the eye of her shuttle with a quick breath and a motion of the tongue before she looked directly that way.

  • The train is on the bridge," she said and caught a quick breath.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quick breath" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blue silk; cold and frosty morning; could obtain; different type; even before; everybody knows; glass vessels; green pastures; inner room; issued forth; laws against; master and; noblesse oblige; present state; quick breath; quick fire; quick look; quick movement; quick pace; quick step; quick succession; quick time; quickly followed; quickly made; quite understand; whatever rank