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Example sentences for "gasping"

Lexicographically close words:
gasoline; gasometer; gasometers; gasp; gasped; gaspingly; gasps; gassed; gasses; gassing
  1. Soon Sipsa crawled, gasping and gurgling, into the umiack.

  2. He climbs the crackling stair--he bursts the door, Nor feels his feet glow scorching with the floor; His breath choked gasping with the volumed smoke, But still from room to room his way he broke.

  3. The carefully-thought-out brighter specks which were women ran gasping and choking from the smoke.

  4. Everybody in the world has at one time waked up gasping from a dream of precipices down which he plunged.

  5. It was a peculiar, guttural, gasping voice.

  6. A short, sharp struggle--a great gasping for breath.

  7. With a gasping sigh, she presently recovered.

  8. Charlie and Tim, strong men as they were, leaned utterly exhausted against the wall, bathed in perspiration, gasping for air.

  9. Meanwhile Harry had been dragged on board the skiff, and lay drenched, shivering, gasping across the thwarts.

  10. The whole proceeding scarcely occupied more than half a minute, so sudden had been the onset, so helpless were the two men, gasping half-strangled in Sherebiah's merciless hug.

  11. The fat clergyman puffed slowly up the bank, with many gasping witticisms at his own defects.

  12. Illustration: The old soldier fell forward gasping p145] The old soldier fell forward gasping, and was carried on half senseless, clutching at the pommel of his saddle.

  13. Among the said men, her fancy did move, To search and to seek for her own true love, Who seeing young Monford there gasping to die, She saved his life through her charity.

  14. Thin shoulders strained against his own, gasping and maculate breaths assailed him.

  15. Mrs. Kuhn became unmanageable; she uttered a series of short, gasping cries, and wilted into the arm about her.

  16. He took her hand and, at the touch, he gave a gasping cry and encircled her in his arms.

  17. She stopped with a gasping cry, and her eyes suddenly strained into the distance, as though a vision of some mysterious thing hung before her.

  18. A gasping sound came from the chair where Hylda sat; but he took no notice.

  19. Despite her brave intention a gasping shriek burst from her as she struck the flood.

  20. I see that as plain as day now, but he came at me with the good news about my money, and kind of sidled me toward the door, and while I was gasping and trying to realize it, the first thing I knew I was downstairs.

  21. Reid fired as he sprang to his feet, gasping and choking, momentarily blinded by the fiery tobacco.

  22. Reid staggered against the wall, hands at his throat, blood streaming from his nostrils, bubbling from his lips as he breathed with wide-gasping mouth.

  23. I am grieved--but it cannot be undone--the fingers are stiffened about your gasping love.

  24. In both, yes, and now love is gasping and duty has become a hard master.

  25. There, utterly done up, he flung himself face downward on the sand and lay for he knew not how long, drawing in the air in long, gasping gulps.

  26. There was a moment of gasping suspense as Cavvy brushed one hand against the hot metal and nearly dropped his end of the load.

  27. For though they still moved, it was more slowly, and gasping sounds of distress came from his rescuer.

  28. Each time that I emerged from below, gasping for air, my heart beat alarmingly hard, and my lungs seemed as if about to burst.

  29. His strength left him, and the last his mates saw of him he lay gasping in the snow and yearning toward them.

  30. Francois called to him a quarter of a mile away and he doubled back, still one leap ahead, gasping painfully for air and putting all his faith in that Francois would save him.

  31. Tommy, white with passion, broke fiercely into his gasping silence.

  32. As it was, he could only kneel in impotence and listen to the amazing utterance that fell from the gasping lips.

  33. Bernard followed him, still gasping for breath, "Give that to me!

  34. He was gasping a little, his face to the howling night.

  35. She stood with throbbing pulses, gasping for breath, feeling as one who had passed through raging fires into a desert of smouldering ashes.

  36. Blackie looked at his friend in gasping awe.

  37. Before the voiceless Broadway Syndicate was through gasping over this piece of news, Jake Block came stalking through the grand-stand.

  38. Say," I said, gasping for breath, "this beats turning a grindstone.

  39. Gasping for breath and pale with fright, I kicked up a little pedal.

  40. It showed first the group of grim black figures which guarded the narrow path to the water through tall cane, and then a man in European dress who stood still, gasping with fear and rage.

  41. He saw him gasping his life away in that very tent, with, regardless of his own agony, words which would brighten all his partner's future upon his lips; and again a gust of passion stirred the lonely man in every fiber.

  42. Dane stood upright, cheering on the paddlers, who broke into a gasping song, and both craft went flying across the swell; but as they edged outshore it became evident that Rideau must pass the reef closely to reach the steamer.

  43. She drew back with a gasping cry, for the old woman was upon her with the growl of a wild beast and the well-remembered spring of many a former combat, when the weak went down before the strong.

  44. Alas, that this fair province of Massachusetts Bay should lie a-gasping amid plenty, with the hand of Britain upon the country's thrapple to choke out the life God gave it.

  45. But the sight of the man in the mud, crawling about, gasping and blowing bloody bubbles, made me sick, and the next moment I turned tail and ran like a rabbit.

  46. Still, it was he, and as he came up to us he stayed all questioning by gasping out the word "Missus!

  47. Slowly, as he cowered back with hands upraised and straining eyeballs, I saw those eyeballs grow rigid, freeze and turn to stone, while through his gaping, bloodless lips came a hoarse and gasping sound that had neither words nor meaning.

  48. The fleetest and best of the two remaining horses was taken by Mrs. Coolidge in lieu of her own gallant little mustang, which was now gasping out his life on the rocky bottom of the pass.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gasping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.