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    Use "gasping" in a sentence

    gasping example sentences

    gasping


    1. Johnny fell, winded and gasping, feeling his shirt soak with blood


    2. As passed us at full speed, going uphill like it was nothing while I was advised, just because it has been offered doesn’t mean we struggled to catch our breath and gasping for air


    3. gasping and sputtering with anger as he sat


    4. Alan stood at the bank gasping, resting his arms on the bank like it was the side of a pool, too spent to haul himself out


    5. gasping, dragging in the soiled air


    6. I crawled back up the beach on all fours, gasping, triumphant - cold belly, warm back, and for some reason, laughing out hot tears


    7. By the time of the mid morning break, I am gasping for my coffee


    8. Again, I find myself on the receiving end of an abject apology which leaves me gasping inwardly, though on the surface I think I maintain a straight face


    9. The Llanberis pass has the children gasping - just as Gary intended - he’s enjoying introducing them to this, for him, much loved area


    10. What about you? You’re gasping for breath

    11. The man lay in a heap on the bulls neck, gasping


    12. He tried to swim but started coughing and gasping for air


    13. Quickly she pulled it away gasping


    14. his shoulder, telling him between gasping breaths of her awful encounter with the


    15. AND THE ABSENCE OF OXYGEN CHOKED AND LET ME GASPING,


    16. Gasping for breath, Rafe struggled to his feet


    17. "You are not angry?" he asked, gasping for breath


    18. Holmes kept gasping for breath and clutching his hands


    19. "I cannot continue," he said as he sat on the ground, gasping for breath


    20. I want to do that again as soon as I stop gasping

    21. The man I loved was gasping for breath


    22. Patrice, gasping in tears and pain, grabs a lamp from an end table as she falls to her knees


    23. back immediately, gasping at the chilly shock, but smiling


    24. Penelope could scarcely believe as she watched the ever-irritable Breton man finally sink to the harsh and stony cave ground, quivering and gasping


    25. Gasping, Elenir wheezed, “And you were worried we wouldn't trust your sources?! That's rich!”


    26. “Glen?” Then she was shaking and gasping for air


    27. Both men were caked in mashed ice and Felix was gasping painfully for air


    28. He held onto the door frame, gasping deeply, as though he had run a long race


    29. Carmen made it to the telephone on the sixth ring, gasping for breath as she picked up the receiver


    30. Not twenty minutes later, in the middle of Thimble Down the pair strode through the doors of the Bumbling Badger, gasping for water from the parching heat outside

    31. I was sweating and gasping for air


    32. Gasping, blood oozing down his cheek, he stamped his foot on the accelerator, leaning forward into the steering wheel as he urged the car to greater speed


    33. “Hey?” Dawn turned Sheena around, gasping when she saw the knife clasped in her hand


    34. there was something going on; and, to a fish, went gasping round and


    35. After being unceremoniously dumped on the ground, where he lay coughing and gasping for breath, the large badger who had pulled him from his plight, glared down at him and wrinkled his snout in anger


    36. But Slikit found himself joining in with the Healer's giggles and pretty soon he too was gasping for breath


    37. He continued moving to his left, searching for an opening, gasping in surprise when another badger landed on his back, but before he could react, the badger had jumped off again


    38. Striking upwards, his muscles straining with the effort, Thesa reached the surface, gasping for breath, the numbing coldness of the water sucking the air from his lungs and stinging his eyes


    39. The punch hit him just under the eye and he dropped to one knee, catching the black youth’s foot as he kicked out, gasping loudly, jerking it into his side, doing his best to make it appear as though a powerful kick had been delivered, instead of the glancing blow it really was


    40. I ground my hips into him, gasping against his mouth, and the heat flickered upward and outward, into my center and through my body

    41. Gasping as my heart hammered against my ribcage, I blinked my streaming eyes to clear them


    42. Fred stomped on the brakes as hard as he could, gasping in dismay, white knuckles on the steering wheel


    43. I felt him come seconds later, and then, almost as abruptly, he stepped away, leaving me gasping and leaning against the wall for support


    44. Mind focused as best he could, strength and courage all but gone, gasping for breath and steeling his fingers with the power of his will, he made it across without looking down; without thinking about it too much


    45. Gasping, not knowing what was wrong, she began to fall


    46. Lyra and Betts appeared at Troy’s side, both gasping at what they saw


    47. She pulled me in close, her gasping breath hot on my face


    48. Sensing a movement behind him, Piers turned, glancing over his shoulder, gasping


    49. Then he was over me, I was back and gasping and sputtering but air was in my lungs! I was coughing and couldn't stop, then air was back


    50. He had only been born the night before in a damp cave full of strident men, their endless, mirthless cacophony silenced by the sudden and unexpected cries of a child gasping for air and a mother suffering the pains of labor






































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    Synonyms for "gasping"

    puffing blasting blustering blowing panting breathing