How to use "breath" in a sentence

He sat in his chair with his back to the door and held his breath

Taking a deep breath, he rose and was going to pass the bench for a third time when he stopped

Then, with a great effort, she raised herself on one arm and, struggling for breath, looked into Marius's eyes.

He walked blindly downwards in this way for a long time, his clothes wet with the blood from Marius's wound, the faint whisper of the young man's breath in his ear

He was being followed! He pressed himself against the wall, held his breath and waited

I take a deep breath.

She waits for a moment, uncertain, and then she takes a breath

Sala took a deep breath

Sala let out a long, slow breath

Sala took a deep breath, and tried to think clearly

She took a deep breath and began to make her way down the stairway.

She took a deep breath

As Sala held her breath, his eyes slowly hardened

His breath smelt of whisky.

She came nearer and I could feel her breath on my face.

Favell whistled quietly under his breath.

She held her breath as his face came slowly around

She took a deep breath and went into the market, where the air was so cold that it pierced her bones, and where the harsh fluorescent lighting was too bright and too bleak to encourage fantasies.

Taking a deep breath, she unlocked the bedroom door and eased into the hall.

The pressure in his chest grew so great that he couldn't get his breath.

With more than a million full-time residents, with more than twenty million tourists a year, and with a vast desert on which to sprawl, Vegas offered thousands of dark, quiet corners where two people on the run could safely stop to catch their breath and settle upon a course of action.

He might as well have saved his breath

A breath of wind stirred a dry tumbleweed and blew it across the blacktop.

He reached into a pocket of his leisure suit and took out a tiny aerosol can that was only slightly larger than one of those spray-style breath fresheners, small enough to be concealed in Bruckster's hand.

Twin plumes of crystallized breath trailed behind them, like ghosts.

On its breath were sprays of snow like icy spittle.

The light on the indicator board changed from four to three to two, and the air inside the lift became so frigid that Tina's breath hung in clouds before her

At that moment I got under the water and, holding my breath until movement was painful, swam under the surface for as long as I could

All around him - in the rooms below, in the houses on each side and across the road, and all across London - people were rubbing their eyes and opening windows to stare out and ask questions, and getting dressed quickly as the first breath of the coming storm of fear blew through the streets