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Meanings of breathing space in English
Spanish
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Examples for "breath"
Examples for "breath"
1
It seemed a simple one; both answered it in the same breath-
2
Persistent labor is the very breath of the soul, men; it-itis.
3
Gretchen laughed joyously; the vintner grinned; the sub-chief swore under his breath.
4
Asad listened in relieved amazement; Rosamund caught her breath in sheer dismay.
5
He was out of breath; he staggered; he leaned against the wall.
1
The course work got so intense, I needed to take a breather.
2
Try and remember that nobody can work that intensively without a breather!
3
Ten minutes a quick breather later, he got back on and sent.
4
The Markets have taken a comparative breather overnight but are still down.
5
Photo: Kelly Donegan Taking a breather with my climbing buddies on Kilimanjaro.
1
I need air, breathing place in this close room, and so must you.
2
Not an opening of any kind offered the mind a breathing place under the free sky.
3
They came to the wide entrance of the Park, so wisely preserved as a breathing place for future generations.
4
There was nothing above it but a high lead flat, which was sometimes used by the religious as watch-tower and breathing place.
5
Are there any other safe places, or cleared-out breathing places nearby?
1
Not that it really mattered if it brought me a breathing spell.
2
Thus she might have got a breathing spell, but Red-Eye was fiendish.
3
I'm hot, at last cried Bob, stepping back for a breathing spell.
4
The enemy drew back and the three had time for a breathing spell.
5
He reached the ant-hill and demolished it and paused for a breathing spell.
1
It is the first breathing time I have had for fifteen years.
2
This peace seemed as though it would allow France some breathing time.
3
Now we have breathing time, and in the end things may go otherwise.
4
It will give us breathing time, of which we are sadly in need.
5
This is the breathing time of the day with me.
Written work.
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Usage of breathing space in English
1
Good, that ought to give us a couple of minutes breathing space.
2
Neither side really wants peace-justsome breathing space to muster their forces.
3
The measure will provide breathing space to thousands of troubled mortgage holders.
4
The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the suburbs belong to them.
5
Cotillard agrees that the country's strict privacy laws allow them breathing space.
6
That gave CIC a breathing space to respond in their own time.
7
The ceasefire allows some breathing space for a solution to be found.
8
It was a case for delay; Mr. Harley must have breathing space.
9
The agony was the breathing space we had while they crept nearer.
10
It gave her a little breathing space to follow her natural inclinations.
11
For a brief breathing space the country was cleared of foreign mercenaries.
12
But it would give you a breathing space to land another job.'
13
The leading couples stood for a moment's breathing space near the summit.
14
With scarcely a breathing space Almo was pitted against a fifth adversary.
15
But Carl's suicide bought the rest of them a little breathing space.
16
Cornered, I sipped my coffee to give me a little breathing space.
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Breathing space through the time
Breathing space across language varieties
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