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A slight movement of the air
Answer for the clue "A slight movement of the air ", 6 letters:
breath
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" Breath " is the second single and the third track from post-grunge / alternative metal band Breaking Benjamin 's third album, Phobia . It was the band's fourth charted song on the U.S. Hot 100 overall, and the second from Phobia . Although "Breath" failed ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (lb en uncountable) The act or process of breathe. 2 (lb en countable) A single act of breathing in or out. 3 (lb en uncountable) Air expelled from the lungs. 4 (lb en countable) A rest or pause. 5 A small amount of something, such as wind, or common ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English bræð "odor, scent, stink, exhalation, vapor" (Old English word for "air exhaled from the lungs" was æðm ), from Proto-Germanic *bræthaz "smell, exhalation" (cognates: Old High German bradam , German Brodem "breath, steam"), from PIE root *gwhre- ...
Usage examples of breath.
Their breaths mingled there between them, their lips mere inches apart, and Abigail could not tear her eyes away from his mesmerizing gaze.
It bore both the rich aroma of leaves being burnt in the fall and the faint perfume of wildflowers ablow in the spring, but it also held a third attar which seemed to be the breath of the Wind itself which none could ever set name to.
Swearing under his breath, Ace hurried to help the abused woman to her feet.
Swearing under his breath, Ace hurried to help the young wife to her feet.
As he studied her sleeping face, he ached inside to stop the car and take hold of her, to whisper her name against her mouth, to tell her how much he loved her, how much he wanted her, so much that already his body-He cursed under his breath, reminding himself that he was closer now to forty than to twenty and that the turbulent, uncontrollable reaction of his body to the merest thought of touching her was the reaction of an immature boy, not an adult man.
I took adeep breath, buttoned my coat, and crept into the forest in thedirection of the copter field.
Thus we are told that earth cannot have concrete existence without the help of some moist element--the moisture in water being the necessary adhesive--but admitting that we so find it, there is still a contradiction in pretending that any one element has a being of its own and in the same breath denying its self-coherence, making its subsistence depend upon others, and so, in reality, reducing the specific element to nothing.
She chose breath over sight and grabbed the aerator, quenching her agonized lungs even as the high-tech optics were torn off her head, turning everything black.
Even the succulent blue lilies--a variety of the agapanthus which is so familiar to us in English greenhouses--hung their long trumpet-shaped flowers and looked oppressed and miserable, beneath the burning breath of the hot wind which had been blowing for hours like the draught from a volcano.
Bees wandered among the heliotrope and verbena and pots of sapphire agapanthus, and even that shady place felt the hot breath of the summer noon.
His breath possessed her mouth, moving in and out in agonizing pulses.
Two riders ventured down the track, passing within ten yards of where Rolan and Alec stood holding their breath.
Holding his breath, Alec inched closer to the edge, trying to pick up the thread of the conversation.
Gasping for breath, Alec doubled over and they knocked him down into the half-frozen mud of the street.
At the far end of the bridge, Alec unclenched his aching fingers and drew a breath of relief.