Wiktionary
adv. (context idiomatic English) Said or done almost simultaneously, in one sequence.
WordNet
adv. simultaneously; "she praised and criticized him in the same breath"
Usage examples of "in the same breath".
He says I mustn't lead the ladies on, and he accuses me of flirting with Gary and Raoul in the same breath!
Her name was often spoken in the same breath with mine, her image was kept before me by no exertion of my own, till the memories it brought with it grew familiar as old friends, and slowly ripened into a purpose which, being born of ambition and not love, bore bitter fruit, and wrought out its own retribution for a sin against myself and her.
He had heard his own little brother, saying his prayers at bedtime, always mention God and General Raines in the same breath.
Kebble had spoken in the same breath of Payne and the Nobel Prize.
Each felt the impulse in himself, and, in the same breath, caught it from his neighbor.
I wanted to laugh and cry in the same breath--to crawl into bed and have a cup of tea, and scold Liddy, and do any of the thousand natural things that I had never expected to do again.
And in the same breath, he related the amusing example given in the school physics textbook, the one about a bridge collapsing when a column of soldiers marched across it all in step.