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Breath in sentence

1085 examples of Breath in a sentence

There may be some carbon in your breath from the dinosaurs.
There could also be carbon that you are exhaling now that will be in the breath of your great-great-great-grandchildren.
But don't worry, take a deep breath, because this is what I want to tell you: you're part of a new team now, and everyone around you is rooting for your success, because your success is their success.
In the grasslands of Mauritania, a gazelle suffering from tuberculosis takes its last breath.
Back on Earth, Margaret Hamilton held her breath.
So I say to the baby, holding my hand over my mouth because my breath must be 100 proof, I say to the baby, 'Sir or Madam, what is your considered opinion of the human species?'
The only creatures that have got conscious control of their breath are the diving animals and the diving birds.
And I decided to, sort of, construct it very, very slowly, holding my breath, working between my heartbeat, and making sure everything is leveled.
Audience: No. WW: So what I did is the same process where I just kind of hold my breath and just work away very, very slowly, manipulating the plastic, cutting it, because it behaves different.
They know who you are based on what you produce from your breath, skin, sweat and body odor.
What we have done at Ifakara is to identify what it is in your skin, your body, your sweat or your breath that these mosquitoes like.
And I don't know when or how it happened, but the speed at which I went from being a talented writer and journalist to being a homeless woman, living in a van, took my breath away.
You're waiting with bated breath for the final toss.
Because the soul, the human soul, embodies a piece of the divine breath, a piece of the divine soul.
Just to know that Jaguar shamans still journey beyond the Milky Way, or the myths of the Inuit elders still resonate with meaning, or that in the Himalaya, the Buddhists still pursue the breath of the Dharma, is to really remember the central revelation of anthropology, and that is the idea that the world in which we live does not exist in some absolute sense, but is just one model of reality, the consequence of one particular set of adaptive choices that our lineage made, albeit successfully, many generations ago.
But really the most important question I ever asked, and most of the times when I talk about it, people kind of suck in their breath at my audacity, or cruelty, but I promise you it was the right question.
So, I began, early on, competing against the other kids, seeing how long I could stay underwater while they went up and down to breathe, you know, five times, while I stayed under on one breath.
By the time I was a teenager, I was able to hold my breath for three minutes and 30 seconds.
In my first attempt to hold my breath, I couldn't even last a minute.
"I want to hold my breath for a really long time.
To actually try to hold my breath past the point that doctors would consider you brain dead.
You know, because they go down for four minutes on one breath.
That's holding your breath as long as you can in one place without moving.
The first thing that I learned is when you're holding your breath, you should never move at all; that wastes energy.
So, when you hold your breath, it's infinitely easier.
Then I learned that you have to take a huge breath, and just hold and relax and never let any air out, and just hold and relax through all the pain.
Every morning, this is for months, I would wake up and the first thing that I would do is I would hold my breath for, out of 52 minutes, I would hold my breath for 44 minutes.
And this guy is perfectly built for holding his breath.
[Individual results may vary] (Laughter) The thinner I was, the longer I was able to hold my breath.
In four months of training, I was able to hold my breath for over seven minutes.
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