Example Sentences

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Top of the new boss’s to-do list will be breathing some life into the beaten-down shares.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

One of Mr Raab's former advisers said civil servants will be breathing a "sigh of relief".

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2023

“Once they are able to lift these last two sections and put them on a barge, I will be breathing a sigh of relief.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2021

Bottom line: 2021 will be breathing on our breakfast before we know it.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2019

And all the while he will be breathing hard like a man who has swum a distance.

From Counter-Attack and Other Poems by Sassoon, Siegfried