Shadowy woods closed in around us, swallowing our group like an inhaled breath.

She licked her lips and her mouth parted on a slight inhaled breath.

Hope unfurled in my chest, sweet as an inhaled breath.

The cavern amplified the hiss of inhaled breath.

So when inhaled breath is suspended, the suspension is measured by the time taken in mentally reciting a particular mantra.

His breath had thinned; Bill remembered that high whistle as Eddie inhaled breath, and knew that he would soon be tooting on the old lung-sucker.