A limestone mountain rose right in front of us, the slope of which we had to climb; but ere we reached the top, we halted at least twenty times to take breath.
We stopped to take breath, and the sight that met our eyes impressed us with its stern grandeur.
We had scarcely sat down to take breath, when a flock of wild-ducks settled near us.
We had scarcely sat down to take breath when a slight rustling in the foliage attracted our attention, and an animal with a bushy tail sprang down from a tree.
As Mr. Bumble paused to take breath, after delivering this address in an awful voice, the tears rolled down the poor child's face, and he sobbed bitterly.
After walking about a quarter of a mile, they stopped before a detached house surrounded by a wall: to the top of which, Toby Crackit, scarcely pausing to take breath, climbed in a twinkling.
I could drink a flask of it without once stopping to take breath.
Ithuel, when he stopped literally to take breath; "there isn't as much true granite in a gallon on't as in a pint of our cider.
Watching a favorable occasion to speak, he put in a word, as the excited Bolt paused an instant to take breath.
Here the good Lisarda was compelled to take breath, of which Theodora most opportunely availed herself to inquire into the cause of the disturbance.
Gomez Arias at last, after several fruitless endeavours to stop Martha's tongue, availed himself of a momentary pause she made to take breath.
In the middle of a sentence he gurgled with laughter; he sat at the foot of his mother's bed to take breath; the candle shook in his hand.
After a few moments of torpor he draws it in slowly: as he draws it in it becomes heavier: just as he is about to fish it out of the water he stops to take breath.
Arthur Gride watched him across the street, and then, drawing in his head, fastened the window as before, and sat down to take breath.
Amgiad sat down on one of them, as if to take breath: and the lady, more weary than he, seated herself on the other.
After they had danced some time, they sat down to take breath, and the young lady calling for a glass of wine, looked upon my brother with a smiling countenance, to signify that she was going to drink his health.
Let him forbid the Scholar to take Breath in the Middle of a Word, because the dividing it in two is an Error against Nature; which must not be followed, if we would avoid being laugh'd at.
Let not the Master neglect to shew him, how great their Error is who make Shakes or Divisions, or take Breath on the syncopated or binding Notes; and how much better Effect the holding out the Voice has.
These are bad roads out here," he said suddenly, stopping to take breath.
He had to stand a little while on the landing to take breath and to regain his composure.
He soon reached the platform, when he stopped to take breath.
They marched thus the whole day, stopping for a moment to take breath, and starting again immediately.
Fray Ambrosio muttered, "I am not sorry to take breath, for this is the devil's own work.
That door was the only means of access to the attic; and on the head of the stairs we all sat down to take breath.
Again I paused, not only to take breath, but to try and discover the brute's purpose in leaving me.
Resting the young man's head on the edge of the timbers, he paused to take breath, and looked about him in despair.
She did not go to the shed for her mule, she made for The Way uncloaked and unhooded and ran for her life until, overcome by weariness, she paused to take breath.
It can't be true," Liza Hope had said to Mrs. Tansey Moore one day as they dropped in to Theodore Starr's church to take breath and a dip of snuff.
Groping and running she reached The Way and, from behind a tree, paused to take breath.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "take breath" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
