I could feel my breath shorten.

Sometimes the attacks came in twos, or even threes ... The very thought made her heart race and her breath shorten.

Eve said when Selina's breath shortened and thickened.

According to the First Family, those few deep breaths had shortened his already all-too-brief life by a few more months.

You feel your own breath shorten until Haemon, her lover and Creon's son, comes to drag the burial stone away.

He found that his hand was trembling and his breath had shortened.

His muscles cramped and his breath shortened, coming from between his numbed lips in hard, small clouds.

Your breath shorten, your body become covered in perspiration?

His breath shortened, too-considerably-while his heart began to pound against his chest.