take a breath
idiom
: to pause and rest
(US) I've barely had time to (stop and/to) take a breath since they got here.
(British) I've barely had time to draw breath since they got here.
Examples of take a breath in a Sentence
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Every year, Swire Properties chooses a different design or architectural practice to create this space, which serves as a cocoon for their VIP guests to take a breath and form connections.
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Kissa Castañeda, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Picnic tables along the way to stop and take a breath.
—Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
Ito opens proceedings with an unusual trigger warning, advising any viewers unnerved by the traumas raised in her film to close their eyes and take a breath.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
The calf swam up in the background, just as Iliya was preparing to head back to the surface to take a breath.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
Work on Grey’s Anatomy, Entourage, and Friday Night Lights would get me out of the red just enough to take a breath for a month.
—Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
But the problem with using aeration as a proxy for proof of life, many medical experts argue, is that babies don’t have to take a breath for air to enter their lungs.
—Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2023
The woman refused to take a breath test and had her license suspended.
—cleveland, 11 Sep. 2023
There was a moment in the early 2000s when Ben Gibbard seemed to take a breath.
—Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
Kissa Castañeda, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Picnic tables along the way to stop and take a breath.
—Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
Ito opens proceedings with an unusual trigger warning, advising any viewers unnerved by the traumas raised in her film to close their eyes and take a breath.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
The calf swam up in the background, just as Iliya was preparing to head back to the surface to take a breath.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
Work on Grey’s Anatomy, Entourage, and Friday Night Lights would get me out of the red just enough to take a breath for a month.
—Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
But the problem with using aeration as a proxy for proof of life, many medical experts argue, is that babies don’t have to take a breath for air to enter their lungs.
—Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2023
The woman refused to take a breath test and had her license suspended.
—cleveland, 11 Sep. 2023
There was a moment in the early 2000s when Ben Gibbard seemed to take a breath.
—Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
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“Take a breath.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/take%20a%20breath. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.
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