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.
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  • 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
  • `Never worked on such a disorganized movie," he flung over his shoulder at the breathless production coordinator. THE SOUND OF MURDER
  • Survivors still complain of ailments ranging from breathlessness, chronic fatigue and stomach pain to cardiac problems and tuberculosis.
  • The story is told at a breathless pace. Times, Sunday Times
  • Having orgasms should be a pleasurable, thrilling experience… they make you breathless, your whole body becomes warmly ‘buzzed’, drained and satisfied.
  • breathless from running
  • She will always have a blueish tinge and she gets a little bit breathless.
  • They maintained a breathless pace for half an hour.
  • It's not that there are fewer hours in the day; the problem is that so much of our time is spent racing around breathlessly.
  • Cartoon sequences, man on the street interviews, golf balls, skits and a breathless newsboy are among the other tricks used.
  • At last she came rushing in, looking breathless and flushed.
  • His work revealed how a failing heart causes severe breathlessness, impairs quality of life, and leads to frequent hospitalisation.
  • The tone is established early on; broad strokes of unbridled praise for friends, co-workers and pets, a breathless, accelerative pace and an embarrassment of exclamation marks.
  • Then I called breathlessly over the PRR to Noriel. NPR Topics: News
  • It can make you sweat too, or feel dizzy or breathless. The Sun
  • Each piece of correspondence reads like a love letter, breathless and exclamatory.
  • His majesty and beauty spoke to me in ways that no priest had ever been able to, and I was breathless from his presence.
  • Indeed, Moffett worked at a breathless pace to ensure that those issues were addressed before the annual meeting took place.
  • You remember," she cried, breathlessly, "you said that a jequirity bean was sent to Captain Shirley? The Treasure-Train
  • The children peered through the open door, breathless with excitement.
  • The Breathless Blush combines well with pink flowered selections of salvias and burgundy leafed grasses, while a touch of lime green foliaged plants such as coleus or lamium will add some extra zest. Freep.com - RSS
  • All the dumb yellow ribbons, stupid flags going up one extra each day, all the newspapers reporting breathlessly on a new UN meeting had issued a new strong statement of extra-vigorous deploration language. "And when the captured British sailor admits she 'trespassed' into Iranian waters, there is fear in her eyes."
  • His lectures were full of theatrical gesticulations and breathless descriptions. Times, Sunday Times
  • The three of them watched in breathless silence as the doors reached their maximum aperture.
  • It was breathless, helter-skelter stuff. Times, Sunday Times
  • I began hearing breathless gasps and I realized that they were mine.
  • Curiously weak-kneed and breathless, I climb onto the trackside and check my time: 74.16 seconds.
  • His book is far from perfect - details of conversations as if taken from transcripts which can't possibly be accurate, and the breathless style of a bonkbuster novel.
  • You probably avoid endurance activity such as running and cycling because it is tough and leaves you breathless. Times, Sunday Times
  • Despite being here to promote a movie devoted to his life, he is hardly your average breathless self-publicist.
  • She was breathless with excitement and it was catching.
  • After three incredible runs our group is breathless, excited and itching for more. Times, Sunday Times
  • If we perish, it will not be of failure or finitude but of breathless, bright-eyed idealists for whom the sky's the limit.
  • He'd turn his head toward me, his chest still moving up and down quickly from the rapid, breathless exertion.
  • Everybody at the club was breathless with excitement and brimming with optimism when we took to the field at Old Trafford on the opening day. Times, Sunday Times
  • These are the industry shills posing as journalists who ‘report,’ usually loudly and breathlessly, on the doings of and goings-on among a hundred or two not very interesting people.
  • In breathless silence the little group of spectators watched his movements, and when, with sharply exhaled breath, he planted a crashing "facer" straight from the shoulder squarely upon the leathern disk they sprang eagerly forward to note the result. The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines
  • The breathless idyl left them, fled on to other lovers; they looked around one day and it was gone, how they scarcely knew. The Beautiful and Damned
  • The coldest-blooded amongst us, Mr. Massingham of _The Nation_ for example, must confess that it was a moment rich in the emotion which bestows immortality on incident when this son of a village schoolmaster, who grew up in a shoemaker's shop, and whose boyish games were played in the street of a Welsh hamlet remote from all the refinements of civilization and all the clangours of industrialism, announced to a breathless Europe without any pomposity of phrase and with but a brief and contemptuous gesture of dismissal the passing away from the world's stage of the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns -- those ancient, long glorious, and most puissant houses whose history for an æon was the history of The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster
  • In the bedlam of yelling and barking he danced from one foot to the other in a brief breathless panic.
  • There had been no indication of either breathlessness or any loss of mental faculties right until his death.
  • There is some basis for the rumour in her defiance of imperial protocol by riding cross-saddle, and a hint of overstimulation in her breathless reports of frantic gallops, but Catherine's nymphomania is a schoolboy legend.
  • So, for an instant, Anthony stood at Susanna's threshold, looking into her antechamber, breathless almost with his sense of her imminence; -- and then the tall flunkey said, in the fastidious accents of flunkeydom, "Net et _em_, sir;" and all my hero's high-strung emotion must spend itself in the depositing of a card. The Lady Paramount
  • Beverly pulled away, feeling breathless and excited at the same time.
  • He began to suffer from weakness and insomnia and bouts of breathlessness and his legs became grotesquely bloated with dropsy.
  • The media has played along, nothing but culpable in promoting James 'renegade image exampled in the recent breathless national reports about the return of James' pit bull after a two week disappearance to his starring in (and producing) cable TV reality shows, including one called "Jesse James is a Dead Man". It's Official: Poseur Jesse James Is a Big Dumb Idiot
  • Wales showed their own turn of pace with a breathless attack. Times, Sunday Times
  • It can make you sweat too, or feel dizzy or breathless. The Sun
  • The novel reads like a compendium of every social evil breathlessly anatomized in every op-ed page over the past two decades. My Sister, My Love
  • The self-confidence, pulchritude and sheer numbers of the females on display left me breathless. LOVE YOU MADLY
  • They turned to me, breathless with excitement. Times, Sunday Times
  • She turned down a small role in Breathless, but nevertheless had married Godard within the year.
  • The unaccustomed exercise left him breathless.
  • Audiences that are breathless during the sensual desert tryst between Jen and her bandit lover Lo (Chang), later sob their farewells aloud to an old warrior who gives a lovely valediction.
  • The dance left her feeling breathless and weak.
  • It can cause palpitations and breathlessness, and the fast irregular rhythm may lead to a clot forming in the heart. Times, Sunday Times
  • Walking to the point of breathlessness may be overdoing it.
  • News peer reputation survey, generated a spirited critique by David Giacalone on on the f/k/a blog, which is dedicated to "one-breath poetry & breathless punditry with haikuEsq," for engaging in "bad neology": Law Porn, Law School Puffspam, Haiku, and Woodpeckers
  • ‘We SO creamed you guys,’ Shannon said breathlessly as they sat down in the grass catching their breaths.
  • In traveling to the homes of famous writers, he wanted to re-create, if not re-enact, the rather breathless and dewy-eyed excursions of Victorian tourists through the English countryside. Modern Reliquaries
  • She ran swiftly up the flights of spiraled staircase, panting and breathless.
  • The schedule: you could get breathless just reading the daily timetable. Times, Sunday Times
  • The light sea breeze made its subtle intrusion in ragged, breathless sighs.
  • In greater doses it can cause chest tightness, fatigue, breathlessness, dizziness and can affect muscle control.
  • I am quite breathless with excitement, or possibly contempt. Times, Sunday Times
  • And so to the main course, and a build-up of breathless anticipation. Times, Sunday Times
  • The same playful mind that can be sensed in Mahendra's plays can be seen in the dynastic sculptures commissioned a little inland from Mamallapuram, at the Pallava capital of Kanchipuram: here we see the ladies of the court riding on elephants under crimson parasols; messengers arrive breathless at halls packed with courtiers; ambassadors from China sue for peace. India: The Place of Sex
  • I am quite breathless with excitement, or possibly contempt. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is news that breathless TV anchors know in their hearts, but cannot bring themselves to utter. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a healthy person, physical fitness will set the level when breathlessness is experienced.
  • The questionnaire was based on his byssinosis study and emphasized work-related symptoms such as chest tightness, cough, sputum production, breathlessness, day of occurrence, duration, and relationship with work.
  • This proved rewarding in Brahms's Sonata No 1 in E minor Op 38, in which the balanced dialogue between instruments, from the breathless angst of the first movement to the fugal exchanges of the last, suited them ideally. Antonio Meneses and Maria João Pires; La traviata – review
  • You probably avoid endurance activity such as running and cycling because it is tough and leaves you breathless. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move.
  • Wales showed their own turn of pace with a breathless attack. Times, Sunday Times
  • The dance left her feeling breathless and weak.
  • Did she lose her head or courage, or misplay her muscular part for a moment, she could be hurled a hundred feet by that giant buffet and left wrenched, helpless, and breathless to be pulped on the coral bottom and sucked out by the undertow to be battened on by the fish-sharks too cowardly to take their human meat alive. THE KANAKA SURF
  • Raistlin was prepared for Tasslehoff's arrival, having heard the kender shouting his name breathlessly six doors down and having heard the neighbors shout back to ask if he knew what time of the morning it was. The Soulforge
  • In breathless prose, delivered down the telephone or by mailshot, we are informed that this is our lucky day.
  • This usually manifests as flushing, breathlessness, rash, urticaria, and hypotension.
  • In a breath, or the half of a breath, Graham saw the whole breathless situation, realized that the white wonderful creature was a woman, and sensed the smallness and daintiness of her despite her gladiatorial struggles. CHAPTER IX
  • There are those where the sheer quality of the illustrations leaves me a little breathless. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the breathless whirl of activity has an odd calm at its centre.
  • The realistic sordidity of the former balanced against the breathless adventure of the latter, combine in stamping Spout as a genius of the highest order. Terribly Intimate Portraits
  • Sit in breathless anticipation, gripped by its overwhelming excitement.
  • Everybody at the club was breathless with excitement and brimming with optimism when we took to the field at Old Trafford on the opening day. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tam arrived red cheeked and breathless at the village commons just in time to see Pel Baker pull his first batch of bubbling sugarberry pies out of a brick oven. Curse of the Shadowmage
  • This could easily have been one of those breathless documentary quests for impossible answers to ancient riddles. Times, Sunday Times
  • The long climb left Jan feeling breathless.
  • This could easily have been one of those breathless documentary quests for impossible answers to ancient riddles. Times, Sunday Times
  • I shall unswathe it entirely, "and Braddock was about to lay sacrilegious hands on the dead, when Cockatoo entered breathlessly. The Green Mummy
  • Five days earlier, the patient had similarly become breathless after snorting heroin, but she improved after inhaling albuterol and did not seek medical care.
  • One was whipped deftly on to his plate, and as he took up his knife and fork to carve it, a great scuffling sounded without, angry voices being raised in expostulation, and, above all, a breathless, insistent appeal for Mr. Carr or Sir Miles. The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
  • The test ends when the patient is exhausted or too breathless to continue.
  • One breathless resident said that he had just seen blood spilling out of the back of an ambulance as it jolted over a bump. Times, Sunday Times
  • The morning after he's dialyzed, while still on subcutaneous heparin, he tells an alert resident about slight breathlessness.
  • That one kiss had left her breathless with excitement.
  • They turned to me, breathless with excitement. Times, Sunday Times
  • He grew alarmed by my bouts of breathless coughing; mollycoddle, he said, but he said it with fright in his face. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
  • An amply endowed young woman in a spandex outfit was bent over him, slapping his cheek and breathlessly intoning, Are you alright? Death's Noisy Herald
  • Her country's epochal events form the colorful backdrop for her breathless and episodic recounting of her own journey of self-transformation.
  • Eustace pulled up short in breathless dismay, for a few paces away there arose from among these untidy "humpies" some twenty natives -- erect, alert, all with poised boomerangs or spears ready to fling. Queensland Cousins
  • Drenched in sweat, they are prostrated by fatigue, ‘sucking in hot air like bellows and breathless in the suffocating heat’.
  • Several urchins are gathered in a suburban backyard, when another moppet runs up to the group and announces breathlessly: ‘Mom is making rich, hot chocolate!’
  • Breathless with excitement, Meredith scanned the stretch of stunning palaces which lined the canal, feeling a sense of awe.
  • BEIJING — China joined the world in breathless coverage of the Chilean mine rescue, but when a gas blast killed 21 Chinese miners and trapped 16 Saturday, the national TV evening news didn't say a word. China Coal Mine Explosion Kills 20, Traps More Than 30
  • This could easily have been one of those breathless documentary quests for impossible answers to ancient riddles. Times, Sunday Times
  • So we were delighted, thrilled, taken aback, and absolutely breathless in bounding up to the stage to make a 60 second thank you. Theater J Wins Mayor’s Arts Award for Excellence in an Artistic Discipline « The Blog at 16th and Q
  • It can make you sweat too, or feel dizzy or breathless. The Sun
  • No breathless hush at the Oval this time round. Times, Sunday Times
  • It can cause palpitations and breathlessness, and the fast irregular rhythm may lead to a clot forming in the heart. Times, Sunday Times
  • He somehow reined in his emotions and managed a breathless ‘What?’
  • As you listen, you notice how every single word is imbued with a breathless sense of wonder.
  • You have to make your voice sound breathless. The Sun
  • she spoke breathlessly
  • After three incredible runs our group is breathless, excited and itching for more. Times, Sunday Times
  • Breathlessly we run faster and faster at a breakneck speed to a destination we neither know nor can ever reach.
  • Palin: “Being here with you Brit, the Fox family expanded out before me in the vast expanse that is our network, teeming with breathless new news, truth dontcha know … given freely to those free ones who embrace freely their freedom, free from the fettering of the nonfree liberal liberals eliting themselves on the people …” Think Progress » O’Reilly excited that Palin will be able to use Fox News to help her political career.
  • Forget the unwieldy title and worthy subject matter, this is a breathless piece of reportage, like a vintage New Yorker feature put to film: expansive, comic, digressive and ever so slightly demented.
  • I ran breathlessly through the tide of darkness swiftly rolling in, and slowly the stalker melted away.
  • This is why a fit person can do more exercise without getting breathless than an unfit person can.
  • I experience breathlessness and sometimes congestion leading to wheezing and hyperventilation.
  • The self-confidence, pulchritude and sheer numbers of the females on display left me breathless. LOVE YOU MADLY
  • Nearly breathless from laughing, she told me she'd been reaching for some canned pineapple and, because she'd lost so much weight, her "britches" had fallen down! Tennessean.com Dickson
  • As I grew older, I learned to delay my obedience, but each moment cost me dear-in breathlessness, nausea, dizziness, and other complaints. Excerpt: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
  • Their feline sounds and nimble mannerisms left me breathless.
  • I met Karmen and Elle at the top again, the two of them breathless from trying to figure out how to control their luges.
  • The track, like the album, will leave you breathless.
  • There may be attacks of sudden breathlessness during the night.
  • Paragon," he heard himself call breathlessly, as he had always called when the pain was too intense to bear. Ship Of Destiny
  • A reader sends along a copy of a breathless invitation that he received from Matthew Stadler, a Randy Gragg comrade in pretention and tortured artist-type gay author who puts together "presentations/symposia/bacchanals in Portland, Oregon, replete with food, drink, music, and general boisterousness garlanding the central pleasure of bright intellects voicing their excellent texts, winging it in conversation, and screening or presenting various textual and visual delights. Creep Suzette (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • The magnificent rock verticals, lush meadows and turquoise waters left me literally breathless.
  • No breathless hush at the Oval this time round. Times, Sunday Times
  • And thus I (aloft and at mine ease) and the fat fellow trotting breathless at the wheel we went awhile (and never another word) until, what with fear of losing his goods, what with the mud and heat and sweat, the poor gross fool looked wellnigh spent and all foredone (as I had seen many a better man than he), whereupon I brought the waggon to Black Bartlemy's Treasure
  • Did she lose her head or courage, or misplay her muscular part for a moment, she could be hurled a hundred feet by that giant buffet and left wrenched, helpless, and breathless to be pulped on the coral bottom and sucked out by the undertow to be battened on by the fish-sharks too cowardly to take their human meat alive. THE KANAKA SURF
  • Steve Lohr breathlessly reports in the New York Times that Nobel prize winner and undisputed godfather of modern economic theory Paul Samuelson is coming out with an article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives on outsourcing that contradicts the ma ... Outsourcing Muddles, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Run up two dozen stairs or more without being breathless at the top.
  • Some had an allergic reaction causing breathlessness and joint pain. The Sun
  • Rustic, nakedly beautiful and breathless, part Fahey as it dustily scratches away at your resistance until you can do nothing but succumb to its incandescent inner passion.
  • When I snapped my first picture under the electron microscope, I was breathless at the detail of the image: I could see the long, lovely arch of the interior of a seminiferous tubule and a great mass of flagella whipping out into the lumen. Seed - Faith and the Scientific Image
  • And so to the main course, and a build-up of breathless anticipation. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was - breathless excitement now - in the building! Times, Sunday Times
  • Breathless messengers, fugitive Swiss, denunciatory Patriots, trepidation; finally tripudiation! The French Revolution
  • There is no need to suffer by doing exercises which leave us breathless and sweating.
  • Then came a swift agitato finale -- a breathless, hurrying, trembling movement, descriptive of flight, and uncertainty, and vague impulsive terror, which carried us away on its rustling wings, and left us all in emotion and wonder. The Ontario Readers Third Book
  • It has additionally been traditionally used for breathlessness, clearing mucous from the respiratory system, soothing coughs, assisting divert as great as semen prolongation as great as as an insecticide opposite lice. Archive 2009-11-01
  • Then there was a sudden steep ascent and I had a moment of breathlessness and feeling sick. The Sun
  • He forged ahead, panting and breathless.
  • In this awful moment of suspense, which seemingly but preceded the disuniting of soul and body, each of the young men turned a breathless look of horror upon the old hunter, such as landsmen in a terrible gale at sea would turn upon the commander of the vessel; but, save an almost imperceptible quiver of the lips, not a muscle of the now stern countenance of Boone changed. Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life
  • It is, isn't it? inquired the Dentist in breathlessness, when the young stomachs of the young explorers had bitten the dust for some yards further. New Treasure Seekers
  • Patiently she waited beside the ticket collector till Gloria came running breathlessly across the station towards her.
  • We were two breathless machines, Dragon bent newborn teeth and skyborn Limbed Popular in the last 8 hours
  • In a breathless press release the network promises ‘immediate, up-close reporting of the Democratic National Convention’.
  • He was breathless after climbing the radio mast with the tow-rope around his waist, and stumbled over a rotting palmetto. RUSHING TO PARADISE
  • I'm serious, i received many msges from meiying abt her 'breathlessness' thingy. (probably cause of my own breathlessness problem, pple will start coming to me for explanations if they get it as well) Yanxious Diary Entry
  • As you listen, you notice how every single word is imbued with a breathless sense of wonder.
  • In its clunky realism and breathless romanticism, Looking at the Landscape strikes me as a real stunner, part late Balthus, but more importantly, part proto-John Currin.
  • Two hours of kip caught, that gives me precisely 24 minutes to shower, coffee, dress, tackle the bags and shadows, then jog breathlessly to work.
  • Radio 5 Live has been excelling itself with some reflective features far from the madding crowd of its usual breathless hurly-burly. Sport in celluloid: Why Raging Bull lacks punch of Chariots of Fire | Frank Keating
  • The staff are happy and helpful, a little breathless and lost, as if their last job was selling lemonade from the front garden. Times, Sunday Times
  • The final presto measures will leave you breathless.
  • She uprighted herself, all red faced and breathless, and looked at the clock. Winter Bloom
  • Within a month of her diagnosis, she was too tired and breathless to walk across her living room.
  • She looked breathless and exhausted but she was still alert.
  • In a moment's time, he was back, breathless and heaving for air.
  • It is news that breathless TV anchors know in their hearts, but cannot bring themselves to utter. Times, Sunday Times
  • And gone forever was the breathless quality of dreams as yet unrealized with which he had hand in hand set forth with her. OUT OF THE ASHES
  • Crook tried to shout to them for help, but managed no more than a breathless croak. STAGE FRIGHT
  • For a moment I was struck breathless as I noticed the tiny golden flecks of colour and sparkle that resided in his iris.
  • If I was a best selling author about to pass such tripe off on my breathlessly expectant readers, I'd have been right there with her.
  • We clung together, breathless, until we had to pause for breath.
  • The teams and the crowd, by then about two thirds full, stood in breathless hush for a minute before play. Times, Sunday Times
  • Word descriptors reflect the distinct qualities of the language of breathlessness, and as health professionals, we must ask the correct symptom questions to determine the appropriate interventions.
  • He'd tried to eat during his break but was so breathless that he nearly collapsed.
  • The Canadian Thoracic Society guidelines recommend spirometry for everyone over 40 who smokes, or has smoked, and has a symptom such as breathlessness, wheezing, cough or persistent phlegm. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Breathless, I gingerly picked up the two pieces of jewelry, scrutinizing them thoroughly.
  • Tech-nology has advanced at a breathless pace.
  • But the incident had brought the family real pain for a few hours while a local radio station broadcast breathless bulletins about a "felled" officer in the Every Secret Thing
  • The voice still sounded more or less as one would expect for a man of his age: worn, unsupported, and breathless, the characteristic timbre dried up and toneless.
  • A brief walk up from the green grocer left me breathless so I called off my personal plans to climb today, if I couldn't make it up a hill without wheezing I don't think that I would have been too successful in a self-belayed climbing attempt. Archive 2009-10-01
  • The pitch was pristine, the sky cloudless, the air breathless and his attack was a mixture of the inexperienced and the nondescript. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was breathless from the moment and was panting for breath.
  • Chess fans around the globe watched the match with breathless interest.
  • The teams and the crowd, by then about two thirds full, stood in breathless hush for a minute before play. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a rarefied atmosphere some slight breathlessness is common. Times, Sunday Times
  • I loved the breezy motion like a waltz and how u threw in the wordplays amidst the rotatory breathlessness! One Single Impression: Blue
  • Wales showed their own turn of pace with a breathless attack. Times, Sunday Times
  • They stood side by side in the breathless warmth, moths passed their faces, a night-jar churred in the silence, and now and then, from the stables, came the stamp of a sleepless horse. Swan Song
  • What makes this outstanding book so vivid and fresh is not only the story it has to tell - a breathless tale of butchery, realpolitik and endless double-dealing - but also the manner of its telling.
  • We were breathless, and getting cold. Times, Sunday Times
  • Shoot, Dad," he called breathlessly, as the cross hairs intersected the exact center of one of the spheres ten thousand feet below. "The War of the Planets" by Harl Vincent, part 12

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