The damp night wind touched her cheek and brow, the luster died out of her eyes, her lips parted, and the deep intaking of breath and trembling sigh bespoke the passing of the emotion--a surrender.
They bathed his forehead with water, and in a moment were rewarded by a flicker of the eyelid and a painful intaking of the breath.
So frail and slender a thing she was, emerging pale and spectral into the glare of the torches, that at the touch of her halting hand upon his arm he started with a quick intaking of the breath and sought his weapon.
There was an intaking of the breath, such as would indicate great excitement, as they learned how Bob's father had been connected with the raids on the secret Stills of the mountain moonshiners.
You didn't mention that before," broke in Step Hen, with an intaking of breath that betrayed excitement.
At the summit, he drew up his horse suddenly with a quick intaking of the breath.
There was a sharp intaking of breath from the spectators.
I have held two and twenty towns, and I have been at the intaking of thirty-one.
By the crescent upon it, it should be the second son of old Sir Hugh, who had a bolt through his ankle at the intaking of Romorantin, he having rushed into the fray ere his squire had time to clasp his solleret to his greave.
Yet I will not deny that at the intaking of a town it is well to have good store of bombards.
He and Sir Nigel sat late in high converse as to bushments, outfalls, and the intaking of cities, with many tales of warlike men and valiant deeds.
Ever in my head I have a rhyme which the wife of a Welsh archer gave me when I crossed her hand with a golden bracelet after the intaking of Bergerac.
This goblet was that which my husband, Sir Nele Loring, won after the intaking of Belgrade when he and his comrades held the lists from matins to vespers against the flower of the French chivalry.
Was it not I also who marshaled the attack at the intaking of Calais?
Guess that's good advice," admitted the lad with a sharpintaking of his breath.
He remembered the swift intaking of her breath at the last, and knew that she was close to tears.
All this was wiped out by a series of terrific crashes, and the floor stirred as if intaking a deep breath.
Alice darted behind the screen with a quick intaking of her breath.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intaking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
