Example Sentences

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For the past three years Christina Dembinska has been breathing new life into forgotten buildings with her handmade stained glass window installations.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2023

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