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

Now you might have thought I would have wanted some breathing time between Platonovs, or whatever they call themselves.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2016

I'd say if your name had meant anything to him he wouldn't have given you breathing time before you'd learned a heap of things that wouldn't have sounded pretty.

From The Son of his Father by Cullum, Ridgwell