Babies are not breathing water while in the mother's womb.

We share it with creatures that breathe water instead of air.

He tried in vain to kill himself by breathing water up his nose.

With the desperation of a drowning man trying to breathe water, he tried to sort them out before they killed him.

The cold damp air breathed water in suspension at him.

His body longed for air, even to the point of tempting him to breathe water.

I have also seen some of them made weak and slow moving by breathing sleeping water.

Oh, don't let me breathe water again, he thought in dread, and hauled with all his might.

He'd be breathing water before he knew what hit him.

The air was so heavy she felt as if she were breathing water.