gasp

How To Use gasp In A Sentence

• Following the sound, Silk found himself among the sellers he sought Hobbled deer reared and plunged, their soft brown eyes wild with fright; a huge snake lifted its flat, malevolent head, hissing like a kettle on the stove; live salmon gasped and splashed in murky, glass-fronted tanks; pigs grunted, lambs baaed, chickens squawked, and milling goats eyed passersby with curiosity and sharp suspicion. Nightside The Long Sun
• She nearly gasped out loud at this insult.
• But their brief respite in the conditioned air of the shuttle made that first step outside a gasper. Cattle Town
• It is, at times, so moving it will make you want to gasp or cry. Times, Sunday Times
• I nearly gasp out loud, one hand flying back to my mouth.
• She feigned shock and gasped in mock horror.
• 'It must be -- eight o'clock,' said the gasping voice -- '_eight o'clock_;' and the tone became a whisper, as though the idea thus half involuntarily revealed had been drawn jealously back into the strongholds of consciousness. Robert Elsmere
• The following morning the pond was seriously cloudy and smelly and the fish were gasping for air. Times, Sunday Times
• Today, we no longer gasp when we hear a teenage girl is pregnant or whisper about unmarried couples who live together.
• He dips his chin, and just as an expectant gasp ripples through the crowd, Eddie launches himself over the wall into a bramble of wild roses.