draw breath

And there are going to be people . . . like when I listened to her and I was like, "There are still people saying that you're not. There are still people who have the audacity to draw breath and tell you that you don't deserve and that you don't . . . And I know that feeling."

"I am emaciated," he said, speaking slowly in order to draw breath between words.

In UK law, an unborn baby does not become a separate person with legal rights until they are born and draw breath by themselves.

Millennia later, the mechanical organs of the 16th century would use the force of flowing water to draw breath into their bellows.

The 125th had a chance to draw breath here.