has been breathing
- present perfect progressive of breathe (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Since then, he has been breathing with the help of a tracheostomy tube and is fed through a gastrostomy tube.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026
Since the early 2000s the co-op has been breathing life back into miles of the Smokehouse tidal channels and salt marsh on the Swinomish reservation, by dredging and using tide gates.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
Facebook has been breathing down the neck of the group video-chat app Houseparty for over a year.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 20, 2017
“They’re both cold but with warm hearts,” says Irina Novikova, president of Yaroslavl’s Russian-American Friendship Society, which has been breathing new life into the relationship with Burlington in recent years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2016
I think she has been breathing too much hairspray.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
