Sentence examples for breather over from inspiring English sources

Now that Cannes has rolled up its red carpet for another year, the film festival circuit takes a breather over the summer (the studenty charms of Edinburgh notwithstanding).

He did get the final few minutes off, since he knows that he will not get a breather over the weekend, or when the team returns to practice on Monday.

No phones were returned at lunch, an hour's breather over a buffet of barbecued chicken before the main action of the day, four hours in the Grand Parlour trying to thrash out the final version of the UK's approach to Brexit.

Guy's a cunt, but he probably had better weekends than you shit-munching fart-breathers will over the next two and a half days.

6.15am GMT 39th over: Australia 154-5 (Smith 22, Haddin 6) Broad, told to have a breather, instead demands another over, and he very nearly has a wicket from it, as Haddin bottom-edges the ball onto his thigh pad, which deflects it half an inch wide of the stumps.

Nearly every time I stopped to check my map, or have a breather, strangers would come over and talk to me.

I'll reap mine too, taking a breather and handing over to the esteemed John Ashdown, whose name can surely be made into a pun relating to this series.

We took a breather yesterday and that's over," he says.

Before starting down the Needles portion, it's not a bad idea to pull over and take a breather at the Sylvan Lake Resort.

As he stops to wait for stragglers, and I sit down to take a breather, he peers uphill over my head.

Was I supposed to pull over and do a five-minute "breather" as a way of understanding that in such moments our vision invariably clouds?