Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of breath.

Etymologies

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breath +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Nothing did in the breathlike wind of the blue ocean; the screaming and chiming and hissing of some language that was older than men were, older than life itself.

    Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Walter Mosley 1998

  • Nothing did in the breathlike wind of the blue ocean; the screaming and chiming and hissing of some language that was older than men were, older than life itself.

    Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Walter Mosley 1998

  • Nothing did in the breathlike wind of the blue ocean; the screaming and chiming and hissing of some language that was older than men were, older than life itself.

    Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Walter Mosley 1998

  • Nothing did in the breathlike wind of the blue ocean; the screaming and chiming and hissing of some language that was older than men were, older than life itself.

    Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Walter Mosley 1998

  • The flowers of the city Though breathlike, get deathlike at times.

    TO RAMONA Dylan, Bob, 1941- 1964

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