breathes

present tense third-person singular of breathe

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of breathes Designed with an amalgamation of pure engineering and engineered for theatrical performance, the bridge literally breathes fire and water. Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025 Bora Bora, French Polynesia Bora Bora may be synonymous with overwater bungalows and honeymoon splurges, but March is when the island breathes. Becca Blond, AFAR Media, 7 Oct. 2025 Mixed with heartfelt moments and heartbreak, Crouch’s performance breathes life into a saga set in small-town America. Audiofile Magazine september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025 The costume department hustles to reattach a limping sole as the star breathes through the heat. Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025 The Spaniard eats, sleeps and breathes this fest. Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025 In a world where growth is equated with progress, capitalism breathes through expansion, and consumption becomes its oxygen. Michaela Rychetska, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2025 Lead in any amount can cause health problems, particularly in children, whether a person breathes it in or ingests it, while extremely high lead levels can cause a seizure, coma or death. Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025 Now the forest breathes with evil, and a vampire lord has risen. Zac Ntim, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for breathes
Verb
  • Donoghue’s 10- and 13-year-old sons grew up there — the family, which lives about half an hour away, got a season pass when their younger son, Ray, was 6 months old.
    Shannon Pettypiece, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
  • That data is then used to help others improve people's work lives.
    Kathryn Gregory, Louisville Courier Journal, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But not everyone who snores has sleep apnea, and not everyone with sleep apnea snores.
    Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • There isn’t a ton of video footage of him, but there’s this interview with Robert Ressler and some of that is in the Peacock documentary.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 18 Oct. 2025
  • So, because of that, there is some gaging and figuring out to do.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • SciAm always educates and delights me, and inspires a sense of awe for our vast, beautiful universe.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Branching results like that inspires experimentation in character builds, which then encourages multiple playthroughs to see just how out-of-hand a situation could have gotten.
    Jason Fanelli, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • To commemorate the milestone, Alvarez shared the video online, hoping to show her followers that the kind of relationship many dream of really exists.
    Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • As its name illustrates, Salt Lake City exists because of the Great Salt Lake.
    Big Think, Big Think, 17 Oct. 2025

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