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Example sentences for "panting"

Lexicographically close words:
panther; panthers; panti; panties; pantile; pantingly; pantings; pantler; pantograph; pantomime
  1. Through his panting he was shouting, hoarsely, "Make me clean!

  2. The crowd parted, and as those in the hack looked down, they saw a man struggling out of it and panting and gasping.

  3. They all crowded round it panting and asking, "But who has won?

  4. The panting breast else troubled without end: And fancy prized the murmuring spinning-wheel In sympathies inexplicably fine, Instilled a confidence how sweet to feel!

  5. Poured on the fleece-encumbered flock, invites To laving currents, for prelusive rites Duly performed before the Dales-men shear Their panting charge.

  6. His own breathing sounded like the loud panting of a hunted animal.

  7. She stood for a moment in the steam of the panting and sweating bullocks counting money into the brown calloused palm extended to her in greedy persistence.

  8. Arabella, still panting and covered from head to foot in mud, had drawn his attention.

  9. Instead of talking he stroked the head of Nap, who was panting with the excitement of this celestial adventure.

  10. Barney's heart fell as he sat panting in the tree, for he knew that they would soon discover him.

  11. He seizes the bag, hurries it away into an inner room, and returns panting for breath.

  12. The engine approaches; and from the opposite direction comes a man, running swiftly, panting heavily, almost breathless.

  13. The panting new-comer stops suddenly before the door of the burning tenement, and glances sharply about.

  14. Crawling into the bushes I rested on my knees with a pistol in each hand, my mouth wide open so as to breathe silently, for I was panting from my flight.

  15. He stumbled up the ladder, and then I heard Petrak close behind him, panting and cursing, and the broken chains on his hands rasping along the bulkhead.

  16. I called out to him as we went panting and plunging down through that three-tiered well of darkness to the street and liberty.

  17. All my attention went to the two men struggling and panting about the floor.

  18. His eyes stared stupidly, his jaw fell, and he stood there, panting and open-mouthed, as though the last drop of courage had been driven out of his body.

  19. Many of them have these black balloons resting on chests panting for breath, and in their mouths they are holding eagerly the tube through which the life-saving gas escapes.

  20. But these were pigmies against an army; the general assemblage subscribed to the gospel according to Slackbridge, and gave three cheers for him, as he sat demonstratively panting at them.

  21. There he stood, panting and heaving, as if he had never stopped since the night, now long ago, when he had run them down before.

  22. And then he fell back, panting for breath, and it seemed as if he had spoken his last words.

  23. When she was done, and stood silent, panting and weeping, the colonel turned to the sergeant of the guard and ordered the prisoner to be unfastened and marched back to the guard-room.

  24. Destruction and death lay panting in the dark cruel throats of the cannon up there, where the gunners stood ready for the word to fire.

  25. Then the naval officer remembers his evening aboard the battleship London, and orders the panting craft alongside.

  26. One threw down one's pen and tried to piece together some melody in the panting pipes.

  27. The smoke trickled from the funnels of the huge battleships that surrounded, and mingled between, the transports; it rolled in thick, snaky coils from the funnels of the low destroyers panting alongside the ships, ready for their mission.

  28. He was content to creep the length of the log, to come up panting beside them.

  29. One thought gave him courage as, springing away to the right, fighting for time to draw a blade, hotly pursued by the panting Spaniard, he rounded a great mahogany tree.

  30. So, still panting a little, he subsided obediently upon Mordaunt's sofa while the latter busied himself with his correspondence.

  31. She was panting a little; he waited while she recovered herself.

  32. Her bosom was panting as though she were again on the point of breaking into a passion of tears.

  33. As though fire passed through her, she sprang to her feet and stood with panting bosom, her flashing eyes bright with the multi-coloured pictures that his magic presented.

  34. Things looked their worst when, one morning, little Polly Griever came running up from the gulch, panting out her good news.

  35. He sprang up, slashing frantically with the iron, panting indistinguishable words.

  36. A burly man-servant, bareheaded and coatless, came panting from the rear between the trees.

  37. The Seraph's grand, rolling voice broke in; he had stood chafing, chained, panting in agonies of passion and of misery.

  38. Rake at that instant darted, panting like a hot retriever, out of the throng.

  39. He seized her hands in his and held them close against his breast one instant, against the loud, hard panting of his aching heart.

  40. Each heavy lock, each pretty curl, Aucassin in rapture prest, And hid them on his panting breast, While he wept in his despair For his darling girl.

  41. I could hear the heavy panting of one who had been running, and as I listened I heard a gentle low voice sob out, "Ach, ach, mein Gott!

  42. Suddenly the heat became less intense, and a current of fresh air entering the earth revived us as we lay panting at the point of suffocation.

  43. Hour after hour we lay in the deep shade of the bracken fronds at the entrance, panting for breath and longing for the water we were not allowed to get before dusk.

  44. Beneath the same sun that rolls over your head, the Indian hunter pursued the panting deer; gazing on the same moon that smiles for you, the Indian lover wooed his dusky mate.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "panting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abrupt; agog; animated; anxious; asthmatic; avid; breakneck; breathless; desirous; disquiet; eager; fidgets; flutter; forward; headlong; impatient; impetuous; impulsive; inquietude; keen; lively; nasal; palpitation; panting; passion; precipitant; precipitate; precipitous; prompt; puffing; pulmonary; quaking; quaver; quavering; quick; quiver; quivering; rash; ready; restlessness; shakes; shaking; shiver; shudder; sniffy; snoring; snuffy; spirited; stertorous; sudden; throb; throbbing; tremble; trembling; tremor; trepidation; twitter; unrest; vital; vivacious; vivid; wheezing; zestful