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- noun Plural form of
breath .
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Examples
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I can't believe I did it. * deep breaths, deep breaths*
starwars.com Blogs 2008
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What say you? this to the thalamites, who took in breaths to protest, then considered.
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Georgians benefit from outsiders bringing in breaths of fresh air, making connections with them, and getting feedback.
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Shame on Anyone Who Doesn't Vote! Beth Arnold 2010
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Are you going to now say that the air she breaths is somehow a Clinton plot too?
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The end result of holding such long breaths is that these divers don't actually live long. ray says,
Boing Boing 2007
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Priceless video .. but riddle me this somebody “Why does an undead character draw in breaths in WoW?”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - All we want to do is eat your brains 2006
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Tis 3. 30am and i'm awake, and watching kae_dash consume junkfood in breaths rather than mouthfuls.
December 18th, 2005 mynxii 2005
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Quietly, gently, briefly as he could, he narrated the events of the past few months, and as he did so she drew in short breaths or long inspirations as the story shifted from phase to phase, and when at last he had finished, she clasped her hands and gazed up into the depths of the sky with eyes that were swimming in tears.
The Redemption of David Corson Charles Frederic Goss
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Follette he was sure of, and at his right Blaise, the stable-lad, panted in short breaths, swinging his unaccustomed weapon softly.
The Justice of the King Hamilton Drummond 1896
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When he had heard Shibli Bagarag to a close, the countenance of Shagpat waxed fiery, as it had been flame kindled by travellers at night in a thorny bramble-bush, and he ruffled, and heaved, and was as when dense jungle-growths are stirred violently by the near approach of a wild animal in his fury, shouting in short breaths, 'A barber!
The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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