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Sentence Examples It is an explosion of emotions and, by the end of the show, she is left sweating and gasping for breath. You could have your visitors gasping in admiration at your elegance and style with this prize. When the first play comes to its hilarious, farcical close the audience is left gasping for air. Her stomach felt light and painless, not gasping with the tortuous pain of cancer. His last words were lost on a choky, gasping noise as Honey felt him being ripped out of her arms as he had once before. They leaned heavily against the wall, gasping and panting to catch their breath. He scrambled to his little feet, his eyes were wild with something old, stronger and feral, panting and gasping for air. She glanced up at the gray sky, her breath coming out in a short, gasping pant. Now I have to drive to the paper shop or garage just for some sweets or a drink because I know the walk would leave me gasping for breath. I felt sorry for the innumerable chubby people at the front who had to be gasping for air. You've never been more awake as you pop your head and shoulders up out of the swimming hole, spluttering, gasping for air. We emerge, spluttering and gasping from a genuine cold salt-water bath, such as the hydropathists have no idea of. I recognised him and tried to say something but just ended up shuddering and gasping breaths, hyperventilating. The thinner air tricks your body into thinking it is suffocating, and so you wake up periodically gasping desperately for breath. The band is gasping for breath, running in the fast track of the music industry. We sat laughing and gasping in awe at the writing, the delivery and the sheer brilliance of Britain's best stand-up comic. I was gasping for some air by that stage so I donned a fleecy jacket and took my wake-up coffee out to sit alongside Mr Rusty for a while. Water poured down from the mountain, feeding the gasping river, which promptly flooded its banks. It's when they up the ante and start selling air to whole areas that the populace is left, quite literally, gasping. I uttered a four-letter word and continued thrashing along, sweating like a pig and gasping. Show More Sentences Suffocating, I crane my head above the crowd, gasping for air but taking in only steaming sweat and fumes of scotch. His live drum solos, though thankfully brief, used to leave audiences gasping. He makes the sound of a fish gasping for air, and this is repeated nine or ten times. She hit the water with a cold shock, and strained for the surface, gasping for air. She landed on her hands and knees and just stayed there, gasping a bit for breath. She was left so out of breath by the journey on foot that even 20 hours later she was still gasping for air. The county has been adrift and buffeted since the break-up of the team of the past decade and now they are gasping for air. Rose finished her speech, gasping slightly for breath, pulling the dressing gown around her further. I completely lose all sense of where I am and begin to panic, gasping for air and taking in large amounts of warm Caribbean sea. When the daughter walked into the front room she saw her mother lying on the floor, unconscious and gasping for air. The child will walk around the house and scream in a panic while gasping for air and sweating. No more sitting on my couch or in my car gasping for air and thinking that I am going to die on the spot. By the time we got onto the motorway and had found ourselves on familiar ground, I was gasping for coffee and something to eat. And the affirmation of life is what we had all been gasping for in an effort to regain the totality of our humanity. Flushed and gasping, she dragged her maidservant with her down the forest glade. I can also say that the terrifically funny Pythonesque sequences had the first-night audience hooting and gasping. My vision a bit blurry and still gasping for breath, I found myself trapped by three grinning teenage girls. Her hands groped along the floor in front of her and she attempted to pull her painful, gasping body along. The trio emerge blinking and gasping but unharmed, and the damage to the den is minimal. I came up from the water gasping, choking, and unable to get a true gulp of air. Show More Sentences She was gasping for breath as her mind rambled a jumbled conglomerate of disjointed thoughts at him. Merissa slowed into a walk as she neared the older woman, coming to a gasping, wheezing stop in front of her. Exhausted, he slowed to a walk, hastily knocking tree limbs out of his way and gasping for air. Alex says, gasping for air, the stab wound in his back sending excruciating jabs of pain through his whole body. At home I lie gasping and read the Arabian Nights, but I may as well read the day's news. Even though jumping rope left me gasping for air, it also got me revved up for the day, and I felt full of energy. This results in the panicky reactions of dizziness, anxiety, wheeziness and gasping for air. The last thing he remembered was gasping with pain when someone sprayed an aerosol mist in his face as he left a crowded elevator. It dawned on me the free-play I felt in the flight controls was an aileron gasping for air to push against as I leveled the wings. All dignity gone, all control gone, because you are winded and gasping for breath. The water pushed her upwards, though, and soon she was back on the surface, gasping for air. A swift headbutt and a hard slam into my own solar plexus left me gasping for breath and I closed in for the kill so to speak. The other kind of trailer is the one that knocks your socks off, stands your hair on end, sears the retina and leaves you gasping. Suddenly another pain wrenched her heart and she clutched her chest, gasping for air. I resurfaced, slapping at the water with the hand full of wax and gasping for air. In between the sounds of his gagging and retching, he sobbed wildly, gasping for breath, barely able to breathe. Standing up quickly, she watched the boy roll around on the floor pathetically, crying, gasping and retching. It makes choking and gasping noises, retching and hacking and throwing itself across the grass with incredible force. A remnant of the decade that fashion forgot, these antediluvian monstrosities have emerged, gasping in to the 21st Century. After a tough few lengths in the swimming pool, it's always refreshing to know you can head for a sauna so hot it leaves you gasping. Show More Sentences A climb up the mountain of Namsan just three miles out of town will leave you gasping for breath. They were curled up on the bare, frozen earth, rimed in frost, shivering and gasping in obvious anguish. I half-expect to asphyxiate, because with so many gasping at once, one would think all the oxygen would leave the air. This waif-like girl was sitting upright, gasping for breath with an oxygen cannula dripping blood. Makoto stood there gasping for breath and Kathy was breathing heavily but still was more alert than him. She set out for her house at a run, and arrived there minutes later, gasping for air. You can almost hear the gasping snores from the open-mouthed man who is sacked out against the tree, taking a nap after lunch. After barely one hundred lines, even the most astute and intrepid explorer is all at sea and gasping for air. He was heard gasping as the steaming composer was steered back to his baked Alaska, simmering with force majeure. As we pushed through the crowd to walk uptown, people around us were crying, or gasping in horror. The arc between midwicket and long-on received maximum attention as bowlers were left gasping, fielders hopeless and spectators expectant. She reached out and grasped the silk, gasping as it unfurled into a thin cloak, shimmering softly. There's a welcome restraint with salt, so you won't be gasping with thirst later on, unless you go mad with the shoyu. She pulled away from my grasp and leaned against the nearest tree, shuddering and gasping for breath as she sobbed into her hands. On Tuesday afternoon and evening we found ourselves gasping in horror at those images. The angels were gasping as they stepped closer, eyes wide as Desdemona was quickly surrounded by that blackness again. The blistering pace of the Kiwi winger had the crowd gasping and everyone was surprised when he was hauled down within sight of the line. It took only moments for her to unarm the man and have him kneeling, gasping and begging for mercy. He tried to stand up to get in a better position, gasping, but then the Urg's grip went slack and he limped over, dead. It'll be a real hoot to see the neighbors gawking, gasping and going completely bonkers over your capricious little caper. Show More Sentences After unpacking my sleeping bag, toothbrush and kettle, I was gasping for a cup of tea. He had chased her all around until she was breathless, panting and gasping. Air whooshed from his chest and Nyte was left breathless, gasping and coughing for air. I remember the fans gasping at Lyukin's triple somersault in the floor exercises for the Moscow News prize. The Super Furry Animals emerged as a breath of fresh air in 1995, just as Britpop was gasping its last. Sense is inevitably degenerating into nonsense, like a pileup of random mutations in an endangered species gasping its last breaths. After little painful moments of gasping and dry retching, she rises up on unsteady legs, wiping spit from her mouth with the back of her hand. I gave a gasping cry and began breathing heavily, then choked and spluttered for his benefit. Once the nurse forgot to tell me to breathe normally and after about a minute I started gasping for breath. The genre was gasping for breath, but it would be a good decade or more before the oater died a rather undignified death. On some tracks, in fact, it gets a bit distracting because you can hear him in the background gasping for air. Soon two large, hammy hands clamped down on his flailing fists and pulled him away, gasping and sputtering, his hair hanging in his face. I forced myself up from the bed, gasping and gripping whatever handholds I could find. She made it to the very end of the hall, gasping for air with one hand gripping at the stitch in her side, the other clutching her forehead. It was some time later when they eventually drew slightly apart, both gasping to breathe heavily, hardly able to speak. Social discipline has broken down, the economy is gasping for life and people's emotions are being provoked into ever-threatening spirals of discord and violence. Tim was just starting to cross the grounds, the dark silhouette of the school outlined in the moonlight, when a gasping voice whispered in the shadows. An integral part of the rich Assamese art and culture, which has flabbergasted renowned scholars, this highly skilled art is gasping for survival. These haters are everywhere and he is just left gasping in shock. Smiling, Lucia continued to tickle his stomach, feet, and underarms, until the little boy was gasping for breath with tears at the corners of his eyes. Show More Sentences On the other hand, suspending all rational powers of disbelief and gasping out loud in glee can be great fun, and livens up a mundane weekday evening. Sometimes people with sleep apnea wake up during the night gasping for breath. Oulson can be heard gurgling, gasping, his lungs crackling, the sounds of someone drowning in his own blood. I would hear her watching it, gasping in shock or excitement, but I hardly ever watched it with her. It had the crazed acousti-rock revolution it had been gasping for. After just a few seconds, Harry was wheezing and gasping for breath as he turned an unlikely shade of beetroot. A well-aimed punch sucks all the air out of my lungs and I fall gasping. Ottke was left gasping for breath by an accidental low blow in the ninth. All it accomplished was to leave him breathless and gasping. I was gasping for a drink after the long climb up to St Andre. The whole hand-to-the-mouth gasping thing we do when learning that women go see these films is horribly retrograde. She remembered running, running all the way to Marcus Berenson's house, her anger fuelling her, not even caring about the stitch in her side, or her gasping lungs. But it was the suddenness of his proposal to Megan upon arriving back in New York that had even her gasping with surprise. The wind came rushing out of her, and she was left gasping for air. The wind was knocked out of her, and she lay gasping for breath. Carried by the elements, the boat comes to life and we ride its bare back, salt spray in our faces, hair flying behind us, gasping with exhilaration. The boy was shaking slightly, and gasping shallowly for air. My throat was so sore from gasping for breath that my laughs at animals humping people, people injuring themselves and children stepping in dog poo came out like coughs. She fell to her knees gasping for air, her hands clawing at her throat. Three utterly madcap men in tights and sneakers take the theatre by storm as they gallop through the tragedies, histories and comedies at a speed that will leave you gasping. Show More Sentences They are gasping for politicians to genuinely communicate with them. He wrote an eloquent one, sitting at the computer on the far end of the living room as the family talked, gasping out sobs as he wrote that wrung my heart. By the end, our little group is gasping like a Lamaze breathing class. On the front row only parents, no fashion media darlings gasping sycophantically, scribbling furiously before sharpening their talons and publishing crippling reviews. The gasping clouds of my breath mingled with the fog as I followed the spoor, pushing through denuded branches and the winter skeletons of undergrowth. My head was buzzing, and I kept gasping for air against his lips. This feels like a flashfic, one of those teensy-weensy short stories that leaves you gasping in just five or six sentences. He climbed the stairs unsteadily, grasping the banister and gasping for breath. Someone kept sighing and gasping and giggling in the screening I was at. Truly unbelievable. Left us all gasping for breath, and wanting more. I think they encored twice, but twenty encores would have been too few. I went off the drink for a long time, but I had Dry Drunk Syndrome where I was gasping for a drink. And then he threw open the bedroom door and she commenced to laugh, but even then, it was a weepy, gasping, tearsome kind of laughter that was purely an overflowing of joy. But a French purple patch that produced 13 points in just seven whirlwind minutes left Wales gasping and facing a huge second half mountain to climb. I can practically hear my mother gasping now as I reach for my Black Bean and Avocado Tostada or dig into a Red Bean and Millet Enchilada before noon. The Autoroute Blanche has tunnels and soaring viaducts that leave you gasping and put the M4's challenges round Newport into rather painful context. Examples from Classical Literature He spoke with a gasping voice, and his face flushed crimson in the moonlight. The stranger dies, while the Indian, sweating and gasping for breath, survives. Hartwick shut himself in the clothespress, and I could hear him laughing and gasping for breath. She met the eyes of her father in some new-found wonder, gasping for breath. The sheriff and his nine men sank down on the grassy slope, gasping, outspent. Her lips were unclosed, she seemed to be gasping for breath like one drowning. However, Dawson could not help gasping impulsively at the luxuriousness of the fittings and furnishings. And cray lay in a deck-chair, gasping as for life, but alive. Back and forth they pranced kicking up a cloud of dust and gasping for fresh air. He was drenched in an instant, strangling and gasping for breath. He now sat down again very much out of breath, gasping at his pipe as if it contained a supply of that necessary, without which he must perish. With a gasping shriek the king ape collapsed, clutching futilely for the agile, naked creature nimbly sidestepping from his grasp. He dropped Jason and fell to the floor, retching and gasping. With parched throats, gasping for breath, they lay back in agony. I have swallowed the bitter pill and now I am gasping for breath. Now he was pale and wild-eyed, gasping as he breathed like one who has run far and fast. The gasping cry had come from Conrad by whom the brazier was set. He tried once or twice, stammering and balking, to the annoyance of the judge, who was gasping from the odor of fertilizer. The hawk is costive, and opens her beak often, as if gasping for more air. Burke was fairly gasping over this outrage against his authority. Show More Sentences He waylaid those who, coming from aloft, stood gasping for breath. Mr. parakeet was gasping slowly and gazing round in a circle. The six pards stared at Colorado Jim in gasping silence for some time. From the open door there reeked a horrible poisonous exhalation which set us gasping and coughing. His hands went up, and he stood gasping faintly in the moonlight. They were like fishes which fishermen have netted out of the sea, and thrown upon the beach to lie gasping for water till the heat of the sun makes an end of them. I remember that we all sat gasping in our chairs, with that sweet, wet south-western breeze, fresh from the sea, flapping the muslin curtains and cooling our flushed faces. She began to haul in, hand under hand, rapidly and deftly, the boy encouraging her, until hooks, sinker, and a big gasping rockcod tumbled into the bottom of the boat. The effect was marvelous, for, as I lightly sidestepped, after delivering the second blow, he reeled and fell upon the floor doubled up with pain and gasping for wind. And then he raged right along with his awful tale, everybody a-staring and gasping, judge, jury, lawyers, and everybody, and Benny and Aunt Sally crying their hearts out. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of gasping? Words that rhyme with gasping What is the plural of gasping? What is the adverb for gasping? What is the adjective for gasping? What is the noun for gasping? Translations for gasping Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words gaspereau Gasper gasper gasped Gaspar gasp gasps Gasps gass gassed gasser gasses 7-letter Words Starting With g ga gas gasp gaspi gaspin