Gypsy-cab drivers double-park sometimes three in a row and come with their misty breaths trailing to the window on the side of the truck.

He seemed to give her words serious thought, a long cloud of his breath trailing away in the wind.

I watched him crunch along in the snow, breath trailing behind him.

The men he'd seen floundering up the slope outside, guards with the Dobermann pinchers, were coming through the main gate, the clouds of frozen breath trailing in the air behind them evidence enough of their exhausting run uphill through that knee-high snow.