breathed
uttered without voice
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,882 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,728 times across 191,625 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- uttered without voice also: voiceless could hardly hear her breathed plea, `Help me'voiceless whispers
breathed in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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For the first time in many weeks Mlle. Gilberte breathed freely.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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That he was down there now, while she breathed pure air.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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Who knows that in a manger-bed there breathed a Child of Light?
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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One soft sweep of the strings succeeded a deep final note, and the hearers breathed freely.
Sandra Belloni (originally Emilia in England) — Complete · George Meredith · Chapter 1
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A faint perfume Breathed through the open windows of the room From locust-trees, heavy with clustered bloom.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1