I could hear the sharp intake of the men's breathing as they hung on the reply.

Suddenly he drew a sharp intake of breath.

The crowd gave a long sighthe intake of a thousand excited breaths.

The first change occurred probably between 400 and 100 B.C. when the meat-eating Chinese reduced their meat intake greatly, gave up eating beef and mutton and changed over to some pork and dog meat.

He saw the quick intake of her breath, a sudden compression of her lips, the startled, searching scrutiny of a pair of eyes from which, for a moment, all the languor and coquetry of her trade were gone.