breathing time
Example Sentences
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Knoblauch employed some late gamesmanship after the goal, putting Skinner in net to get his players a few extra seconds of breathing time.
From Seattle Times • May 12, 2024
Last week the U.K. government extended the deadline for forming a new government by a year in an attempt to buy breathing time to find a solution.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2023
We thought, that gives us some breathing time, to chill.
From Slate • Feb. 28, 2020
Kirby and McGrigor have developed a pet phrase for skaters who build in obvious breathing time during their routines: “He’s pulling off the highway into the rest area, driving past the picnic table.”
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2010
At each breathing time this whale makes from sixty to seventy expirations, and remains, therefore, at the surface ten or eleven minutes, and then, raising its tail, it descends perpendicularly, head first.
From Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Lee, H. W. (Henry William)
