Editorial »

How to use the word breath in a Sentence? Page #17

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

Filter by category:

408 results found

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.

Dave Barry

added by anonymous
14 years ago

No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world.

William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.

Aesop

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Wisdom and spirit of the Universe Thou soul is the eternity of thought That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.

William Wordsworth

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

William Hazlitt

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

Miguel de Cervantes

added by anonymous
14 years ago

This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.

Crowfoot

added by anonymous
14 years ago

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot

added by anonymous
14 years ago

While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

Charles Evans Hughes

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Arabic Proverb

added by anonymous
14 years ago

When an American says that he loves his country, he ... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

When your world seems like too much to handle, Just take a deep breath and laugh. It clears the mind and frees your spirit.

Unknown

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Unknown

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - no more - to a man, And love to a woman is life or death.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

Oprah Winfrey

added by anonymous
14 years ago

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

Oprah Winfrey

added by anonymous
14 years ago

And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I am open to receive with every breath I breathe.

Michael Sun

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart

added by anonymous
14 years ago

To breath through the truth is not the same with knowing it.

Sorin Cerin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

searching for the guy that can take my breath away looking for the prince that save me, and take me on his horse in search of my romeo that will rather die than live without me triying to find the edward that will die for me finding out that him the guy will never come to me if I keep dreaming like this

Fer

added by anonymous
14 years ago

you say I'm worthless yet you waste your time on me. you say I can't do anything right but you still waste your breath on me. you tell me I'm stupid yet you still try to teach me. you tell me to live my life yet you give me no life to live?

Latasha Mae frericks

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Discuss these sample sentences with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good definition for breath? Don't keep it to yourself...

    Word of the Day

    Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?

    Please enter your email address:



    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Quiz

    Are you a words master?

    »
    a state of irritation or annoyance
    A abet
    B huff
    C monish
    D fluster