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Sentence Examples There is of course a long tradition of French girls delivering breathless, kittenish vocals over smoky, elegant pop. If we perish, it will not be of failure or finitude but of breathless, bright-eyed idealists for whom the sky's the limit. She felt so very light-headed and faint, quite breathless from all the dancing. One of life's great joys is ploughing your way through a reasonably intelligent, breathless thriller. Each day's ride will leave participants breathless as they view deep gorges, whitewater rivers, cool streams, and a variety of wildlife. Again Ridge instantly screamed out breathless tales of a terrorist wolf, while the media slobbered at the door. With all this breathless activity, and the firm's seemingly endless run of good luck, it is hard to see what can go wrong. I met Karmen and Elle at the top again, the two of them breathless from trying to figure out how to control their luges. You can't walk 10 feet without being covered in sweat, and you arrive everywhere sticky, salty and breathless. In breathless prose, delivered down the telephone or by mailshot, we are informed that this is our lucky day. His majesty and beauty spoke to me in ways that no priest had ever been able to, and I was breathless from his presence. Unlike my hypothesis, she speaks in her baroque and breathless way not only when upset or anxious but also when she is up and effusive. The magnificent rock verticals, lush meadows and turquoise waters left me literally breathless. These peculiar blobby silhouettes will surely provoke breathless imaginations. This is why a fit person can do more exercise without getting breathless than an unfit person can. I find Woodward's breathless you-are-there insider accounts written in his trademark leaden prose to be virtually unreadable. He'd tried to eat during his break but was so breathless that he nearly collapsed. He subsequently dropped much of the textural subtlety in favour of breathless Cuban and funk populism. He had chased her all around until she was breathless, panting and gasping. He'd turn his head toward me, his chest still moving up and down quickly from the rapid, breathless exertion. Show More Sentences She ran swiftly up the flights of spiraled staircase, panting and breathless. There is no need to suffer by doing exercises which leave us breathless and sweating. Drenched in sweat, they are prostrated by fatigue, breathless in the suffocating heat. Air whooshed from his chest and Nyte was left breathless, gasping and coughing for air. The swordsman was breathless and tired, yet he had fared better than all his friends, though he did not know it. Within a month of her diagnosis, she was too tired and breathless to walk across her living room. The day passed by and our party arrived at the new lodge, tired and breathless. We had started out the last song breathless, and ended completely exhausted. Together, this is a high-powered trio, a critical mass leading to a dramatic chain reaction that leaves us breathless. And that was it-just those two breathless weeks, then years of mild regret and intermittent speculation. Despite being here to promote a movie devoted to his life, he is hardly your average breathless self-publicist. Exhausted and breathless from the simple answer, Ben turned a questioning glance at his mum. Though crudely made, it displayed a breathless joy that continued through each of his subsequent films. He scooped me back into his arms and we proceeded to dance until we were flushed with breathless excitement. A walk through the shopping district will leave you breathless and, sometimes, penniless, but it is a worthwhile go. The bittersweet tang of pulverized sugarcane hung pungent in the breathless void of the wind. The light sea breeze made its subtle intrusion in ragged, breathless sighs. Cartoon sequences, man on the street interviews, golf balls, skits and a breathless newsboy are among the other tricks used. Like Lawson, she responds with semi-delirium to certain tastes, and makes breathless lowing noises between nibbles. Set in an abandoned mine, the work features rapid-fire cuts and scene changes that give it a breathless, surrealistic bite. Show More Sentences Rock and roll numbers, soul blockbusters and blues' anthems are knocked out one after the other at a breathless pace. But it came down to last-second heroics and breathless moments provided by the rarest of talents. She's a kooky, overtalkative eccentric and there's a breathless implausibility to the way the romance develops. If you're too breathless to form complete sentences, you're exercising too hard and overtaxing your heart. You made my life one breathless thrill then left me on this lonely bed, with no instructions how to fill the chiliads of hours ahead. It's understandable if your response to this breathless battle between corporate giants is to pray for a pox on both their houses. Pack up the breathless hyperbole and just point us in the direction of better gear. The breathless void of the sea was wantonly rousted out, as an ill-omened wind hailed from the east. His blow-by-blow account of the performance is breathless in its fanboy enthusiasm. The academic protocols are observed, but her instincts are folksier, so her writing has a breathless, often brainless colloquialism. In fact the firm management of the Republican convention had journalists breathless for lack of stories not fed to them by the machine. For a moment I was struck breathless as I noticed the tiny golden flecks of colour and sparkle that resided in his iris. Olnek directs at a breathless pace, imaginatively varying styles and making the most of Munee Hayes's over-the-top furbelowed costumes. Again and again Ghast swung his sword, a dazzling display of skill that would have left lesser men breathless with envy. As I arrive breathless at the bottom of the gorge, my companion, who is considerably ahead of me, begins to gesticulate frantically. She describes her experiences on the film with a sort of breathless effusiveness. I leaned over with breathless anxiety while the Indians worked, and an eye, an ear, a foot, or a hand was disentombed. A breathless enthusiast for the wired world, he writes well enough to take happy Luddites such as me along with him. Her country's epochal events form the colorful backdrop for her breathless and episodic recounting of her own journey of self-transformation. Each piece of correspondence reads like a love letter, breathless and exclamatory. Show More Sentences Rustic, nakedly beautiful and breathless, part Fahey as it dustily scratches away at your resistance until you can do nothing but succumb to its incandescent inner passion. She will always have a blueish tinge and she gets a little bit breathless. He freely modernizes punctuation, which is fine, but is generous in the use of em dashes, so that in his letters he sounds like a breathless Jane Austen heroine. At last she came rushing in, looking breathless and flushed. And there are some patients who are not in pain at all, but still want euthanasia, because they are weak, constantly tired, nauseous, or breathless. Their feline sounds and nimble mannerisms left me breathless. Five days earlier, the patient had similarly become breathless after snorting heroin, but she improved after inhaling albuterol and did not seek medical care. In its clunky realism and breathless romanticism, Looking at the Landscape strikes me as a real stunner, part late Balthus, but more importantly, part proto-John Currin. Beverly pulled away, feeling breathless and excited at the same time. The test ends when the patient is exhausted or too breathless to continue. I began hearing breathless gasps and I realized that they were mine. Their mantra was echoed in the glowing reports of the critics and guidebooks, all of which unanimously extolled the place's virtues in worryingly breathless prose. She looked breathless and exhausted but she was still alert. The shows are very student-priced and will leave you breathless. All it accomplished was to leave him breathless and gasping. In a moment's time, he was back, breathless and heaving for air. I cannot countenance any more breathless, fanzine-style chronicling of her attire. Suddenly, you are crying, breathless, raging, and on quieter days just going through the motions. Whether it's breathless coverage of the New Black Panthers, or reports of vote buying in Mississippi, recent examples abound. At his shows, I remember there being a hushed, breathless anticipation as we waited to see which song Smith would play next. Show More Sentences The community in which you were raised does not gather around the television set every four years for a solid, breathless month. After a breathless waiting period in which the infected were quarantined, none of the six fell ill. I was almost breathless at my laptop, upstairs in the bedroom of the carriage house while Eliza worked on her novel a floor below. He became breathless and suffered from pain, exhaustion and weight loss. He builds up an atmosphere of breathless jollification, comic hysteria, and turns it up to a pitch so high it can hypnotize kids and keep them frozen. Sit in breathless anticipation, gripped by its overwhelming excitement. But the breathless whirl of activity has an odd calm at its centre. I was reading WIRED for the first time in ages the other day, and found myself getting annoyed all over again at the breathless prose they use in their articles. The grey cloaked man could feel their breathless air down his spine. Fox News reported the letter from the inspector general's office to Judicial Watch in breathless tones, as though it was confirming the credibility of the allegations. Fieri is a breathless speaker, exuding an aggressive pep that can border on the manic. She also heard his deeply agonized, breathless cry as he collapsed limply to the floor. He also had a certain romanticism and thrill about him which made me feel breathless and like I was ten feet above the ground, floating in the air. A frisson of breathless excitement rippled through the Twitter community last week as a mysterious new member made his debut. I'll be watching with breathless anticipation and a tub of popcorn. The poem's breathless momentum and brio defy ironical posturing. I was breathless from the moment and was panting for breath. Given this history, littered with out-of-nowhere names, it might be reasonable to assume that the press would refrain from breathless speculation about the veepstakes. The audience alternated compulsive chatter with breathless silence, and there were three or four mid-film bouts of spontaneous, delighted applause. Neither could really speak, being tongue-tied and breathless. Show More Sentences In 1984, the Apple chief introduced the first personal macintosh computer before a breathless audience. A shock-headed boy, breathless from running, flung himself into the room. For all of the breathless, unintelligible talk about the Higgs, think of it this way. Chantelle was nearly breathless with excitement by the end of the night. She panted into the phone, breathless from all the last-minute planning. A magical mixture of stunning guitar work and studio wizardry, The Axeman Cometh's fifteen fantastic tracks will leave you breathless. Most strike the same ominously breathless tone, and all reach the same vague nonconclusions. He is a master of the breathless paragraph, the hypnotic meditation. And snatched her breathless from beneath this wilderment of wreck and death. Their straining eyes abacinated by the cup of terror, their throats stopped, their powers dead within them, they hung breathless, motionless. As a cyclist, with an unfortunate penchant for weak innuendo, I prefer to begin my working day sweatily breathless. However, her cute and breathless girliness was an elaborate cover up for a very clever young woman who was both ambitious and ruthless. By that stage Sevilla were down to 10 men and Jorge Sampaoli, their manager, had been sent to the stands as a breathless encounter started to spiral out of control. It becomes a grotto, hubbubbing with more noise than any class on a school visit could make, the air mobbed by breathless chatter about life and the transfer window. For four nights, up-beat ceilidhs and soothing ballads taken from chart-busting albums Talk on Corners and In Blue rang out in the Arena as they left the audience breathless. It was a breathless whisper from a porcelain goddess, pale cheeks accentuating striking blue eyes and glossy pink lips, full and parted with shallow breaths. The rapid and breathless pace puts her breath and speaking apparatus to the test, facing the spectator not with a calm representation but an intense performance of logorrhea. With a breathless voice more appropriate for oohing about a glamorous rock star, Rich is telling all internet marketers that they don't know squat. Once upon a time, there were those who turned heads with their breathless style relevance, the ace faces, be they mods, rockers or just courageous boulevardiers. Examples from Classical Literature Then the voices of the crowd came to Naomi's ears like the neigh of a breathless horse. She was borne on, breathless, unprotesting, to the white palings where the paygate was. Here was indeed a fulmination to strike an Englishman breathless and dumb with amazement. After a frantic chase Jambres paused, breathless, in front of a building of portentous proportions. It was the old Garibaldian porter, breathless, bareheaded, and in his slippers. As the awestricken eyes of the terrified child fell on the mass of stone and bronze the sight smote him breathless. The keen night air had seemed for the moment fairly to congest her lungs and render her speechless and breathless. Woburn had broken down the door, and stood torn and breathless in the breach. Marty, watching breathless and wide-eyed from the field, threw a handspring and uttered a whoop of joy. It is only the true lover to whom the breathing form is as sacred as the breathless. Andrew from beneath the bench lifted his sopped head, like a turtle, breathless. Marishka sank back into her seat breathless with apprehension, the warnings of the hated Herr Windt dinning in her ears. Upon that scene, the quiet of the room so raucously lacerated, burst Mr. Haas, too breathless for voice. Greetings were curiously breathless yet casual, but without any backslapping. By the time she had climbed the stairs to the newsroom, she was almost breathless. Kocher considers it advisable to operate if the patient becomes breathless on making pressure on the goitre from side to side. Laden with perfume was the air, of jessamine, of styrax, of roses heavy in the breathless evening glow. In a moment, he seized the breathless and insensible Imogen, and lifted her to his car. The words were not a question but a breathless assertion as she remembered the Jotun's last threat. She danced until she was breathless and the hurdy-gurdy had gone away. Show More Sentences Captain Wragge watched the postmaster's hands, as they sorted the letters in the box, with breathless eagerness. She reached camp at dusk, hot as fire, breathless and strengthless. His arms became stiff, his legs lost their flexibility, and he was almost breathless. He waited breathless for the first shock of the Andover attack. It was the bald-faced Kid, breathless, his brow beaded with perspiration. At last as I banged pretty heavily against the bulkheads he warned me in his faint breathless wheeze to be more careful. Madame blanc, a stout woman of thirty-five, was rather breathless. But blue fox, breathless and triumphant, only showed his teeth derisively. All were leaning forward toward Bouchard breathless for his answer. There was a sort of breathless touch in the air of the room. A crowd of silent men had gathered about the box in a breathless wait. The Countess, breathless from dancing, burst in upon the little group. The vague fear that had haunted his guilty soul after receiving their letter, and during his breathless journey, now seemed to be realized. The house waited in breathless silence for Mr dawks' casting vote. As she handed the first of the savory dishes to her master, the dogs suddenly exhibited a breathless personal interest in the proceedings. A long, breathless silence succeeded, during which each looked at the others in fearful expectation of hearing the sound repeated. She stood in the doorway, shepherded by Cousin Marija, breathless from pushing through the crowd, and in her happiness painful to look upon. Shelby, breathless, and almost faint, as the possible meaning of these words came over her. Moore seemed enraptured at the handshake and breathless over the occasion. Amid a breathless pause he drew the good yew bow back to his ear, glanced along the shaft, and let the feathered missile fly. Show More Sentences The dance concluded, Mrs. Hubbell came back breathless, but enchanted. Master Davy,' said Peggotty, untying her bonnet with a shaking hand, and speaking in a breathless sort of way. On and on Jim went in uninterrupted, almost breathless silence. He passed those same places once more with drooping head, voiceless, tearless, almost breathless. He gripped his bow, nocked an arrow, then sat there breathless, waiting. Proudly the war bride, ending so, Sank breathless in the dumb white snow. The ghastly, treeless, grassless, breathless canons smothered us as if we had been in an oven. A pinch hitter was up next, and amid a breathless silence he was watched. Heyward had watched the whole procedure, on the part of Hawkeye, with breathless interest. Finally he extricated himself, ruffled, breathless, but still talking. With clasped hands, in breathless suspense, Mercy looked at that inspiriting face, and listened to those golden words. Jurgis usually went on until he was interrupted, but this man did not interrupt, and so at last he came to a breathless stop. As he looked, an aide-de-camp, breathless and heated, galloped up. The lagging crowd of listeners paused, breathless, to lose no word. It was a breathless and tautological remark, but it relieved her feelings. Dusk purpled on the breathless water, and on the Long Beach. She flew to the window, and Theodora, in breathless anxiety, followed. She pressed the cat to her threadbare bosom with a breathless exclamation. In the breathless pause he felt deafened by the thudding of his heart. They are sensual with an unashamed violence that leaves you breathless. Show More Sentences The stranger rose, standing tall in the light of the expiring fire, which in our breathless attention to his story we had neglected to keep going. The new-comer regarded the doctor with that beaming but breathless geniality which characterizes a corpulent charwoman who has just managed to stuff herself into an omnibus. I go to rescue,' and Hurree, pounding down the slope, cast himself bodily upon the delighted and astonished Kim, who was banging his breathless foe's head against a boulder. In one breathless moment the conviction struck her like an electric shock. Five minutes afterwards two breathless rabbits came scuttering away down Bull Banks, half carrying half dragging a sack between them, bumpetty bump over the grass. They listened, breathless, when she told them the house in Esplanade Street was crowded with workmen, hammering, nailing, sawing, and filling the place with clatter. Grose immediately and violently entered, breaking, even while there pierced through my sense of ruin a prodigious private triumph, into breathless reassurance. On the summit of a little knoll, with a pipe between his teeth and his back against a palm-tree, Trent was lounging away an hour of the breathless night. We follow his adventures with breathless interest, or luxuriate with him in the leafy bowers of the 'Happy Valley,' surrounded by joyous children of nature. And he seated himself, utterly breathless, wiping away the great drops of sweat which fell from his brow and drenched, like tears, the parchments spread out before him. Forgetting their morning deshabille and general untidiness, they rushed breathless with excitement to meet the regiment, and listened greedily to the band playing the march. Obtaining the permission he desired, he darted off with breathless eagerness, and, still carrying the birdcage in his hand, made straight towards the spot. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of breathless? Words that rhyme with breathless What is the adverb for breathless? What is the adjective for breathless? What is the noun for breathless? Translations for breathless Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words breathing space breathings breathing room breathing heavily breathing breathiness breathlessly breathlessness breath of fresh air breath of wind breaths breathtaking 10-letter Words Starting With b br bre brea breat breath breathl breathle breathles