[
UK
/bɹˈɛθləs/
]
[ US /ˈbɹɛθɫəs/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹɛθɫəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty
breathless from running
followed the match with breathless interest
breathless at thought of what I had done -
appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
pulseless and dead
an inanimate body -
tending to cause suspension of regular breathing
a breathless flight
breathtaking adventure
How To Use breathless In A Sentence
- It can make you sweat too, or feel dizzy or breathless. The Sun
- I am quite breathless with excitement, or possibly contempt. Times, Sunday Times
- I was reading WIRED for the first time in ages the other day, and found myself getting annoyed all over again at the breathless prose they use in their articles.
- She once rang me breathless with excitement: ‘I'm going to be in a magazine!’
- A shock-headed boy, breathless from running, flung himself into the room.
- Ah, what a world entire was this lost little hamlet of Paradise, where merrymakers trod on the mourners 'heels, where the scream of the biniou drowned the floating note of the passing bell, where Misery drew the curtains of her bed and lay sleepless, listening to Gayety dancing breathless to the patter of a coquette's wooden shoes! The Maids of Paradise
- But earlier I used to get palpitations with breathlessness.
- Hi!" he called breathlessly, as he tore down to Sleepy Hollow, where the others were having a laze. The Sea of Adventure
- The action, when it happens, is breakneck and breathless.
- Today this leaves me breathless with hope. Christianity Today