in one breath
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“Hi, can I ask you a quick question—what would you do if your boyfriend smelled like this?” he said in one breath, brandishing an open bottle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
"I woke my family up and we rushed down all 16 floors in one breath," said one man named Mr Qin by Chinese outlets.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2023
Mr. Musk has had a complicated relationship with AI, saying in one breath that it could bring humanity into a golden era and another that it could destroy human civilization.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
Holding tenderness and rage in one breath, the Nigerian-born nonbinary author excavates trauma, divorce and loss without restraint: “what wars have been fought on me what hauntings I carry in the blaze of/unspeakable light.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
I had never said so many words in one breath in all my life.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
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