Use "breathlessness" in a sentence

1. Such nostalgia always ended with the thought: Heavens! That was almost forty years ago! The passage of time always left him with a sudden breathlessness

2. And then there was blackness, breathlessness, a moment or two of

3. “Looking for the wood sling,” Cam replied, not a trace of breathlessness in his voice

4. but he had virtually accepted that before she would come, he would die of breathlessness

5. The twilight had fallen and the full moon was shining more and more brightly; but there was a peculiar breathlessness in the air

6. She had the same breathlessness as when she used to tell Lydia a story about the mean girls at school

7. Lately his chest had become so bad that the slightest exertion brought on fits of coughing and breathlessness, which made it almost impossible to work even when he had the opportunity; often it was only by an almost superhuman effort of will that he was able to continue working at all

8. Breathlessness, and the shock of cool water

9. He said to my uncle, “Harrison’s symptoms: breathlessness, dizziness, and the syncope—that’s fainting—the fluttering in the chest and sudden weakness—these all are indications of tachycardia

10. It can cause great pain and breathlessness

11. Oh, the tremors, the breathlessness, the excitement, of that journey! Oh, the fairly dizzy rapture and pain of it! I had a vision of streets brilliant with lights, of a press of carriages, of shops, flowers, buildings; of unknown faces, each one the possibility of interest, the invitation to adventure, and I exulted

12. Her curiously happy exaltation, her absentmindedness, her long, smiling reveries; the look of flushed excitement on her pretty face, the odd impression of breathlessness; the muttering of strange words in her sleep, followed by bursts of almost ribald laughter