Example Sentences

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This calf — steaming and soggy and apparently unbreathing, before Luke began to poke his face with straw – could be one of the very last calves born on the Gartmans’ farm.

From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2017

She unwrapped the linen and laid the blooms on Gelifen’s wings, across his small, beautiful, unbreathing body.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

We lay in the tent for three days while the blizzard yelled at us, a three-day-long, wordless, hateful yell from the unbreathing lungs.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Pearl of France, said he, the jewel of a toad’s head, say I. My honour staked, and to that unbreathing image of tallow!

From A Prince of Good Fellows by Barr, Robert

As though, unbreathing, in the depths of a tomb, they watched the sphere.

From Sense from Thought Divide by Dongen, H. R. van