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

Little one, don't breathe a word; your mother knows nothing.

From Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist by Smiles, Samuel

"Respect his confidence, and don't breathe a word to any one as to his doings, and you'll find your place worth hundreds a year."

From Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England by Le Queux, William

Hush! don't breathe a word; it is my secret; only I had to tell you because of what I saw in your face just now.

From The Rhodesian by Page, Gertrude

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