He turned back into the room and managed to draw a low, shallow breath.

Without thinking about it, she'd been taking shallow breaths through her mouth.

She drew a shallow breath and brought her voice under control.

It was a shallow breath, but all she could manage these days.

Her eyes were closed and she was taking short, shallow breaths.

I took a shallow breath and jumped in with both feet.

Some of them could scarcely speak more than two or three words at a shallow breath.

We stood that way for a few seconds more, then I took a shallow breath.

"Take shallow breaths through your mouth until you get used to it."

He took a shallow breath and brought his head close to one of the largest.