were breathing
- past progressive of breathe.
Example Sentences
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Since changes were introduced last summer to prioritise those in most urgent need, the proportion of patients arriving at hospital who were breathing after a cardiac or respiratory arrest improved during December.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026
Adeyeye knew a lot of people with asthma who already were breathing some of the most polluted air in the Bay Area, made worse by stifling heat waves that have grown longer and more intense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2024
The intensity of the bioluminescence corresponded with the concentration of oxygen, which the researchers demonstrated by changing the amount of oxygen in the air the animals were breathing.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2024
Finally, the researchers incorporated local population density to determine about how much smoke Americans were breathing.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 15, 2023
“She said the farts go up into the atmosphere and spread out all over the world, and I thought it was funny that people in Florida or California or wherever were breathing in Canadian farts.”
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
