don't breathe a word

Example Sentences

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There you are with your comrades, every month, bold as brass, unapologetically coming to do your disruptive thing to me and my sisters and we don’t breathe a word.

From The Guardian • Sep. 4, 2019

Now don’t breathe a word of it to a living soul, or I am a dead boy.

From Peck's Compendium of Fun by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)

Now don't breathe a word of this, but there's a big deal on in Consolidated Copper.

From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Wilson, Harry Leon

We don't breathe a word to any living being.

From Enter Bridget by Cobb, Thomas

It was no living person you saw, but the ghost; only don't breathe a word to any one else here.

From Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore by Lewes, Mary L.