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Example sentences for "gasps"

Lexicographically close words:
gasometers; gasp; gasped; gasping; gaspingly; gassed; gasses; gassing; gassy; gastar
  1. Tis needless to relate the progress and termination of her malady, or watch that expiring flame of life as it gasps and flickers.

  2. He died like a good knight," gasps Ulric, himself dying on the field.

  3. Then followed gasps and sobs, and then the steady flow Of kindly tears: the brain was saved, a man might know.

  4. How reconcile," gasps Malice, "that with this?

  5. He heard the grunting and gasps of his own warriors and the clash of bodies and weapons around him.

  6. But his face was set in a frozen grimness and though his breath came in gasps he made no other sound.

  7. Trembling with pain, exhausted, sick, and sore, He gasps for breath.

  8. And then three startled gasps rang out as a dark brown form rounded the corner, and they saw what was apparently a huge beast looking down at them hungrily.

  9. His sobbing gasps were giving way to quick, precise breathing; his hunted air had faded to a faintly perturbed irony.

  10. The camel suddenly humped his back, and the gasps turned to shrieks.

  11. By now one could distinguish the rumble of the wheels from the heavy gasps of the engine.

  12. Between his gasps Anstice described the chase and its subsequent ending; and Garnett's eyes shone with an unholy lust for battle as he listened.

  13. Nell dropped her duster and wheeled; her face was very pale, and her breath came in gasps because her heart was beating so fast.

  14. Yet she could not avoid little gasps and gurgles of delight as she arrayed herself in the flowing, old-fashioned skirts, and buttoned the blue bodice across her thin chest.

  15. The spasmodic, sob-like gasps began to shake him again.

  16. His tremulous voice was breaking into gasps of helplessness.

  17. We also decided to leave the door to the upstairs open; I'm frightened of noises sounding like gasps or snorts of air, as they remind me of the way in which I was alerted to Norm's predicament.

  18. I woke up this morning to the sound of harsh, uneven gasps of breath.

  19. It is necessary for your success," gasps the girl.

  20. From behind him came a series of indignant gasps and exclamations.

  21. He paused From the committee came a gasp, or concert of gasps and muttered exclamations, indicating astonishment.

  22. For it was groaning, broken by sobs and gasps of anguish.

  23. I told him what I had seen; told him in broken sentences, with gasps of pain between them, and very dexterously and swiftly he bound my arm meanwhile.

  24. But these struggles and these gasps would not occur in the body 'thrown into the water immediately after death by violence.

  25. The Wolf appeared at the open door, where he fired one shot as a signal to Cayuse; there was the hiss and clang of releasing brakes and gasps from the starting engine.

  26. Then the rider of the cayuse in tired, panting gasps gave Carney his message.

  27. Under the stimulus of the potent liquid, Malkarski was able in a few minutes between his gasps to tell his story.

  28. When one sits and counts upon one's fingers the amazements the 19th century has provided, one gasps and gazes with wide eyes into the future.

  29. Sobbing gasps caught her breath as she stood and watched him striding pitilessly and superbly away with, what seemed to her abject soul, the swing and tread of a martial god.

  30. New gasps and exclamations were plentifully in evidence, and the omissions mentioned as within the rules of too full a day were now very definitely settled upon, for even the noon-day meal was falling in arrears.

  31. He could only sob, great groaning gasps for breath--and then he couldn't see!

  32. You're awful pretty," he gasps at last, "and I am dropping no end of blood off my arm on your bodice.

  33. You are a brick, Giddy," gasps Mrs. Roche, squeezing her hand under the table.

  34. Eleanor walks up and down before the glass, with spasmodic gasps of satisfaction, till Philip comes to the door to see if she is ready.

  35. Her breath comes in quick gasps from a throat parched, and dry as with desert sand.


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