breathing
noun
the act of a person or other animal that breathes; respiration.
unbreathing
-
a word derived from
breathing.
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
He gave me the impression in his dungeon of one of those toads which are found from time to time in blocks of coal, and have lain there unbreathing and unmoving since the deluge.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 by Various
If this levying entailed only the seizing of money, that cold, unbreathing, lifeless substance, then human emotion might not start in horror at the consequences.
From Great Fortunes from Railroads by Gustavus Myers
