Breath in a sentence as a noun

If the boat flips - you better hold your breath and start swimming and hope it comes back upright.

But the vitriol and hate that has spewed forth online to her is what takes my breath away.

Some people have breath of knowledge and study specific topics as needed.

I take a deep breath, relax, and then try to deconstruct their interface so I can figure out what to click next.

I would often hear him in the office talking to himself, swearing under his breath and mashing his keyboard.

Either way, I wouldn't hold your breath for a better review verification system.

We should instead be spending out breath advocating for greater accountability in the system as a whole.

This life is but a breath or, as my 100-year-old grandmother said shortly before she passed on, everything that she had experienced to that point was "but a blink.

I don't know you and I don't know the world you live in, but just from your worried tone, and the rate at which you're responding to comments in this thread, I just want to say: take a breath.

So don't hold your breath awaiting any court-driven abolition of software patents generally.

That is, you will always be thinking but how will we make money?It also kills me that when talking about ways one makes money he mentions Stripe, Boku, and Kickstarter in the same breath with ad networks.

Breath definitions

noun

the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing; "he took a deep breath and dived into the pool"; "he was fighting to his last breath"

noun

the air that is inhaled and exhaled in respiration; "his sour breath offended her"

noun

a short respite

See also: breather

noun

an indirect suggestion; "not a breath of scandal ever touched her"

See also: hint intimation

noun

a slight movement of the air; "there wasn't a breath of air in the room"