draw breath

No friends who were still drawing breath would do something like this.

Again this is from probably before you were drawing breath!

But he is not talking about the number of years that one has to draw breath.

He may be the best boy who ever drew breath and it would not matter.

She needed a moment to draw breath, to firm her will.

He was looking directly at me, and I drew breath to continue.

He drew breath, and looked Miles straight in the eyes.

The pressure against his body made it difficult to draw breath.

Half the night had passed in the time it took to draw breath.

He was close enough to hear the Captain draw breath.

But it was like willing herself to stop drawing breath.

She drew breath for the first time in three and a quarter hours.

From behind him came the sound of a sharply drawn breath.

She would have him before he could draw breath to shout.

And drew breath as if there were no air anywhere.

No one was safe from that woman while she drew breath.

The woman hardly drew breath, certainly not enough for him to get a word in.

But of course it had, I thought, and forced myself to draw breath.

I have been upon the Way since before your grandfather first drew breath.

And by the way she was drawing breath, about to become a loud one.

He drew breath as though to speak, but then let it out again slowly, saying nothing.

She stopped to draw breath which gave Dad his opportunity.

After a moment, he drew breath slowly through his nose.

I drew breath from it, and felt the sweat break out on my face.

I heard him draw breath once, as if to speak, but he was silent.