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.
She reached out and grasped the silk, gasping as it unfurled into a thin cloak, shimmering softly.
He winced at her startled, horrified gasp and continued.
A moment later, the dead boy's chest heaved in a last agonal gasp, a deep groan shuddering his body, his bed, my soul. Titrate until comfortable
The portly old housekeeper used to play cicerone, but the portly old housekeeper, growing portlier and older every day, got in time quite unable to waddle up and down and pant out gasping explanations to the strangers. The Baronet's Bride
I read day and night, like an asthmatic gasping for breath. Dreamseller: The Calling
Without a single zinger in the bunch, this comedy is gasping for laughs, and should be relegated to the $2.99 bin very soon.
Whatever they were telling her, Dakota was gasping and laughing, hands to her mouth. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
We meet Gaspar, the bull-necked boss of the local Maquis, obviously still enraged by the compliance of his neighbours.
With each gasp for breath, the wolves became more and more tired.
It was only when I was on the second sachet and gleefully exhorting the recalcitrant bubbling cauldron to cleanse thyself, that the Gamekeeper ran in gasping and flung all the windows open. 42 entries from November 2007
Bette concluded with a gasp and sank her teeth into her sandwich.
She was left so out of breath by the journey on foot that even 20 hours later she was still gasping for air.
I can't breathe properly?I'm gasping for air!
John smirked knowingly as his compatriots gasped in unison.
Hero gasped, he started to run to the box, uncaring of noise, the same thought repeating in his head: please no!
They have male spores called microspores and female spores called megaspores.
Their hands touched briefly and she almost gasped in shock.
On the right hand of the Judge are -- not the Jews confronting the Gentiles on the left -- nor exactly the well-conducted and well-balanced people who get there in Greek allegories -- but a group of men and women who realize where they are with a gasp of surprise. The Jesus of History
Her body lurched, so thin the lightest touch would break her in half, heaving gasps of terror.
With a gasp, his head jerked left as a metallic sound echoed through the room.
These may not address their Majesties, but they may stare; nor will it be contested that the attentive circular eyes of the humble domestic creatures are an embellishment to Royal pomp and grandeur, such truly as should one day gain for them an inweaving and figurement -- in the place of bees, ermine tufts, and their various present decorations -- upon the august great robes back-flowing and foaming over the gaspy page-boys. The Egoist
It was the second successive week for both teams that last-gasp field goals had been decisive. Times, Sunday Times
The Celtic star laid on two killer last-gasp Ipswich goals in two minutes.
I heard the following melody in Gaspe Country, the eastermost part of Quebec. Folk Songs of French Canada
South American Miocene Charactosuchus, while gharial-like, has been regarded as a highly unusual crocodylid of uncertain affinities (Langston 1965, Langston & Gasparini 1997), while Euthecodon – a uniquely African taxon, some species of which approached 10 m in length – is also a crocodylid, and perhaps a close relative of the living dwarf crocodiles (and we’ll discuss those more in a moment). Even more recently extinct, island dwelling crocodilians
She gasped out loud at the first icy stab of the droplets, then quickly shampooed her hair.
GLOUCESTER were denied a valuable draw in France by a controversial last-gasp try. The Sun
Your excitement was infectious as you laughed and gasped as we were whirled and twisted.
He might surface, gasp for air and taunting by his pirate comrades and then be keelhauled back underwater.
He scrambled to his little feet, his eyes were wild with something old, stronger and feral, panting and gasping for air.
Everyone in the crowd gasped and Miss Moss fell over in a dead faint with poor little Mr. Goodman to catch her stout figure.
As a boy growing up on Long Island he had greeted news of hurricanes by going up to the attic to sit with an anemometer, and built his own telescope in order to gasp at the planets it revealed.
She gasped as another memory floated to the surface, her drink slopping over the railing, cup falling to the ground.
He resurfaced, gasping for air, before striking out for the larger raft. Times, Sunday Times
I hadn't heard of this series until BBC 7 started rerunning them, and this is by far my favorite sci-fi comedy, even giving (gasp!) Issue 0.035
The only sound from the 4,000 people watching is a collective gasp of awe. Times, Sunday Times
They both gasp at the sight of the great circular cloud of blue, white and gold lying under the spindly saplings and old sycamore trees. SEA MUSIC
It is hard not to gasp at the speed of the ascent and my admiration is more marked, and more edgy, because I know that the whole structure is balanced on a bearing the size of a small, round coffee table, like a pencil poised on the tip of its lead.
I gasped when I saw the material; it was a sheer blue shimmery silk material that felt like water.
She gasped at the wonderful view.
That old patient gasped out last night.
I read it, however, with unscholarly whoops, guffaws, and gasps. Times, Sunday Times
You can hear him drawing breath - tiny gasps during "Bloom," big gulpy lungfuls during "Morning Mr. Magpie" - but he exhales the same as ever: in a mumbly, monochromatic moan where the vowels are dramatic and the consonants are tough to make out. Album review: Radiohead, "The King of Limbs"
Amber giggled and gasped lightly as he swirled her around while tickling her.
While adverts for cigarettes have been banned for years, the gaspers still get a good press.
Winded, I curl into a ball on my side, tip my head back and gasp for breath.
He gasped out when he read the letter.
I heard myself gasp and cry out.
At first Buzz saw nothing, but then she gasped in horror.
Loud gasps and quiet, anxious murmurs ripple through the lunch crowd.
When the first verdict was announced, people cheered or booed or gasped; we knew how we felt.
She gasps with the pain of the gun barrel in her ribs.
When the acquittals were announced, gasps of relief resonated from Wolfmeyer's family and friends before they applauded, giving Wolfmeyer a thumbs-up sign. USATODAY.com - Jurors acquit Wolfmeyer in murder-for-hire case
They gasp for breath and gush sweat. Times, Sunday Times
Exhausted, he slowed to a walk, hastily knocking tree limbs out of his way and gasping for air.
She gasped for breath, eyes wide, frightened, and unseeing.
I (gasp) think the Tom Douglas salmon bake is a good idea. Homeless Group Says It Will Protest Salmon Bake « PubliCola
(This is a gore moment: the open-mouthed doctor holding up the necrotized digit while the priest gasps, What the hell is that? Saints on Percocet
He sat and listened attentively, supplying her with the occasional wide-eyed stare or gasp.
But, alas, the printed word can not adequately convey the panting, gasping misery of this particular torment.
Theresa gasped, but the sound got lost in the wailing broadcasted in Dolby sound from the two far corners of the room. THE VENDETTA DEFENCE
Shamans say its very breath has power, and that the sound it utters when it gasps can send poisoned darts flying, as from a blowgun.
I gasped slightly in pain and watched him stride away.
Without warning, he pulled his adversary's hood down, which drew a collective gasp from the crowd.
He listens to the oxygen machines hum and burble and gasp, the humidifier wheeze, the buzz of the fluorescent light in the hall.
There were gasps of horror from the spectators as he fell off the tightrope.
Blanche gasped, a ragged sound, her fair, trembling hand jumping to cover her mouth.
The 169 remaining members of the troop are within gasping distance of being awarded the coveted green beret. Times, Sunday Times
She gasped in surprise but abruptly hid her astonishment from her mother who looked up at the sound. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Pinky gave some attention to the large videoscreen and gasped at what he saw. "High-Frequency War" by Harl Vincent, part 2
Gasping for breath, Isabel managed to twist her head away from him and look around.
A ghost is gasping for air, as if it were being stifled.
Barb: Some people, particularly homosexuals, have anal sex. [after the students quit snickering and/or gasping] This is very high risk for disease because of the thin lining of the rectum. The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause
A few minutes later, we reached the edge of the woods upwind of the dump and gasped clean air.
She surfaced, gasping for air, then ducked her head back underwater. BLINDSIGHTED
With a gasp of pure horror, Lewis jumped up and ran.
The word quieted him, and with a gasp his mind seemed to change at once. Tracy Park
All business: Their last gargled gasp of protest sealed my end of the deal, loosing my fetters to fly away home. My Respects
Meiosis results in the production of four megaspores, containing half the number of chromosomes of the sporophyte.
Adele gasped, looking up to see Wes plonking himself in a seat beside her.
Three utterly madcap men in tights and sneakers take the theatre by storm as they gallop through the tragedies, histories and comedies at a speed that will leave you gasping.
The gasping clouds of my breath mingled with the fog as I followed the spoor, pushing through denuded branches and the winter skeletons of undergrowth.
She tried to gasp an apology, but my hand stopped her lips from moving.
Alex says, gasping for air, the stab wound in his back sending excruciating jabs of pain through his whole body.
But really, I totally queened out and gasped in a room by myself last week when Paris eliminated him, so clearly, I was emotionally invested. Fourfour:
An extra-time penalty gave Barcelona a last-gasp win over Chelsea.
He chewed his lip and tapped another gasper on his thumbnail, looking keen. Watershed
He gasped as he saw her, and fell to the ground, groveling at her feet, pleading with her.
(For Baudelaire's still less novelish following of _Gaspard_, see below. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
He gasped for air, and blood sprayed from his mouth. The Broken God
I felt two hands cover my eyes, and I gasped in surprise, reaching up to grasp them.
I gasped hard, unbelieving at the warmth.
The piece ends with Winerip cudgeling legalization activist Ethan Nadelmann (who -- gasp -- has a PhD from Harvard!) into admitting that he still, at ripe middle age, smokes pot -- and has even done so in the presence of children ... [pause for reader to make a call to protective services]. Daniel Denvir: I, Pot Smoker
I knocked on his meagre chest with my fore knuckle, and fetched forth a weak, gaspy cough; but he looked at me unflinchingly, much like a defiant sparrow held in the hand. Local Color
The gasping and laughter and cheering were all so in sync, it felt like we all had the same brain! 'Fellowship of the Ring' at Radio City Music Hall: High-class geekery | EW.com
[237] If anybody pleads for Louis Bertrand of _Gaspard de la Nuit_ as a thirdsman, I should accept him gladly, though he is even farther from the novel-norm than Gérard himself. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
She gasped as she was suddenly grabbed from behind and a hand came up to cover her mouth.
The captain was gasping badly in the foul air. Times, Sunday Times
A mixture of wayward finishing and last-gasp defending ensured the game remained goalless at the final whistle.
One hears stories of Christians who, in great anguish of heart, hover over the deathbeds of unbelieving dying relatives, hoping to hear, if only as a last gasp, a confession of faith.
I tweaked his nipple and then a little harder until he gasped.
Here, too, it resembles "The Producers," which was a last-gasp homage to the anything-for-a-laugh Borscht Belt schtickery on which the stand-up comedy of my childhood was based, with four-letter words sprinkled on top to give it a factitiously up-to-date air. The Re-'Producers'
Gasping in the fresh cold air, Christopher cleared away the shards with a side table, knocking out the frame as he did so.
Like a rabbit borne aloft by a hawk, Semele hung gasping in his grip.
‘Splendid little creature,’ gasped Mr Griffiths, mopping his brow once more.
While drawing gasps of astonishment from residents, the snowflakes failed to make an impact on the ground, where they melted into large grey puddles. Times, Sunday Times
He lay there for six or seven shortening gasps, while a star, lonely in its solitude, brightened at his zenith. COLDHEART CANYON
I began hearing breathless gasps and I realized that they were mine.
About 11,000 fans gasped as Tomas went airborne and crashed hard to the ground - and then raved with cheers after he literally ate the sand of the ring, rose ungored and went on to kill the bull, prompting huge praise from Spain's bullfighting critics. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Gasping for air, I scramble towards the raft and, with my four bobbing companions, swim to the safety of the shore pushing the raft in front of us.
He gasped as he saw how much destruction she had wrought with the hammer.
Water poured down from the mountain, feeding the gasping river, which promptly flooded its banks.
An integral part of the rich Assamese art and culture, which has flabbergasted renowned scholars, this highly skilled art is gasping for survival.
She spun round with a little gasp of delight.
Yet when the new racecourse opened to more gasps of horror than delight, the future of this regal place was thrown into uncertainty. Times, Sunday Times
He breathed in huge gulps of air as the heavy pounding flooded his ears, the pounding of his heart and the harsh gasps of air.
Members of the audience actually gasped when Hayek referred to Socialism as 'atavistic' - the reversion to an older, more primitive form. Socialism as Primitivism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The captain gaffed the fish and hoisted it aboard - a 36 inch striped bass gasping on the non-slip grey deck. Aram Roston: Deadliest Catch Brooklyn Style: The Fish You Catch in New York City
At first the tiniest amount of cardio work left me gasping for breath. The Sun
However, if my house were on fire and I could only grab one (gasp, choke, gasp) ONE book - I would not bat an eye nor miss a step in bolting for my Lizzie Borden Past & Present by Leonard Rebello. The Clews List of 10 Best True Crime Books of All Time
‘Oh my word,’ she gasped, her voice barely a whisper.
The last thing he remembered was gasping with pain when someone sprayed an aerosol mist in his face as he left a crowded elevator.
Then, as great quantities of black-grey reek, wheeling all convolved, were now enveloping the vessel, resting on the sea, reaching away in thinner fog even to the _Boodah_, and as, the day being calm, there was a difficulty in reading the flags, the Captain gasped: "Take the trumpet -- ask them -- But don't they pay for this ...? The Lord of the Sea
A century from now will we be gasping for water in an increasingly roasting world or huddling around a few burning sticks, struggling to keep at bay the bitter cold of a cosmic winter?
The film was shown to gasps of rapture at the Democratic Convention.
Take advantage of advanced search functionality (gasp!) such as plurals, truncation, and wild-card and Boolean operators when using your local library catalog or databases.
Next I needed a respectably Cajun rendition of ‘Jole Blon,’ a blazingly fast waltz that has left me gasping more than once and hanging on to my partner.
A climb up the mountain of Namsan just three miles out of town will leave you gasping for breath.
Were we, class?) So when Tyler finally handed over the weird, translucent, egg-shaped moonstone and Mason immediately brought it to Katherine, I didn't let out a full-on gasp.
They were curled up on the bare, frozen earth, rimed in frost, shivering and gasping in obvious anguish.
Crowds gasped as the team of seven leapt from a droning Hercules 3,000 feet above them, while youngsters rushed for autographs from the jumping daredevils.
For a long time, she's been gasping for a chance to show her acting ability, and now her chance has come!
While gleefully announcing that Chomsky's website has (gasp) a copyright warning, Schweizer smugly points out that the site "does give you the opportunity to 'sublicense' the material ["]. Slackbastard
Viewers will wince at the training regime for the young and malleable, and gasp at the electrifying results. Times, Sunday Times
She pulled away from my grasp and leaned against the nearest tree, shuddering and gasping for breath as she sobbed into her hands.
Unless your are driving at high revs, using a good quality paper air filter allows enough flow, but switch to an easier breathing filter if you like to wind up the motor frequently, as that's when it's gasping for air.
A remnant of the decade that fashion forgot, these antediluvian monstrosities have emerged, gasping in to the 21st Century.
In the ovules of most sexual flowering plants female gametogenesis is initiated from a single surviving gametic cell, the functional megaspore, formed after meiosis of the somatically derived megaspore mother cell (MMC) 1, 2. Naturejobs - All Jobs
However, she was not aware, until Davis settled in, that his nights were a continual calliope of snorts, wheezes, gasps, grunts and whistles — in several different keys, no less. The Love Tap
The blistering pace of the Kiwi winger had the crowd gasping and everyone was surprised when he was hauled down within sight of the line.
Microfossil assemblages from rare black and grey clays in this succession contain only a variety of seeds, Microcarpolithes hexagonalis and megaspores, and there are neither foraminifera nor other marine microfossils.
She gasped in excitement as she saw bolts of lightning flitter across the sky, leaping from one bleak rain cloud to another.
We all gasped putting our hands over our mouths as we gaped at the scene in front of us.
She was gasping for air as she ran out of the burning house.
We gasped for breath as we hung our fur shapkas on the hat-stand.
“For two drachmas per worker,” another collective gasp and Erabulus went purple, “with five for him,” Phrynus pointed at the foreman, who was greatly mollified by that. The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber
Some had their mouths open as if gasping for a last breath. Times, Sunday Times
One crude stretcher stood next to the other," he wrote, "and all were occupied by moaning, sweating, deathly pale men, who were gasping for breath in the thick atmosphere of excrement and iodoform. 'Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization'
Standing up quickly, she watched the boy roll around on the floor pathetically, crying, gasping and retching.
The man gasped agonizedly and went to his knees, but his tall mate lunged in, in ferocious silence, raining blow on blow so furiously that Valeria had no opportunity to counter. The Conquering Sword of Conan
Trinity gasped as she sat up, her side hurt from hitting herself in her sleep.
What gasps there must have been in the space-age bars and galleries, where they sit sipping their cremant d' Alsace.
But if you actually (gasp!) read his material, none of this preachiness comes through (except, maybe, in his explicitly religious stories). A Complex Shadow
He said ‘I'm gasping for a drink could you sub me some money.’
She gasped, the air rushing out of her mouth, and she stopped running.
She gasped, staring at him, shock and pain darkening her eyes.
The excited boy gasped the news.
The liberal class gasped when he vetoed a "millionaire's tax"; business owners hurrahed. The Chris Christie Clones
Your jaws get achy and when you take the mouthpiece out your teeth no longer fit in your mouth, and you can hear every breath you take and it sounds like you're gasping for air, which you are, because water is splashing into your tube.
But it's so crowded, loud and smoky that even the intrepid Milica gasps for air, and we reascend the stairs to lounge against the bannister near the entrance.
The crickets ceased from their sing-song chant, the wildfowl from their squabbling, and the raven croak broke midmost and died away in gasping silence. THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT
Zander gasped for breath, his lungs burning for it, as Charlie landed another punch in his stomach.
I noticed the slight glimmer in his eyes when he mentioned my mother and gasped.
Champion jockey Kieren Fallon continues his excellent week with yet another winner, just getting up on Happy Crusader to snatch a last-gasp victory in the nursery race.
He cranks his uphill repeat, turns, and pads downslope for his final two-minute gasper.
Pearl gasped, sucking air from her oxygen canula, hands gripped the armrests of her wheelchair, as if she could push the air in and out of her lungs that way. The Chihuahua Cure
The elder man spoke in a weak, plaintive tone, constantly stopping to wheeze and gasp for breath.
As one who draws great pleasure from an occasional gasper, especially when enjoyed in convivial surroundings, I am appalled at this assault upon the liberties of smokers.
In the context of an inverse regression, you have to think long and hard about whether a procedure for regression of effect upon causes (tree ring ~ temperature + precipitation) where you want orthogonality can be transmogrified into an inverse regression of cause upon effect in the style of dendroclimatologists ( temperature ~ bristlecones+ Gasp + …), where you actually want multicollinearity (i.e. a signal). More on "Naturally Orthogonal" « Climate Audit
'Tootsie'-inspired storyline and Meg with a * gasp* real boyfriend, the episode offered enough laughs to get us through. TV Squad
Many gasps were heard from a small crowd that had amassed above him, as he brought the sword to his side and faced his enemy.
The image using Gaspar Llamazares'photo appeared on a wanted poster updating the US government's 1998 photo of the al-Qaida leader.
Russia's current leaders, who have reimposed a large dose of authoritarian control, speak nothing of the three men and little about the event that consumed them—a last-gasp Communist coup, 20 years ago this weekend, to salvage rigid Soviet rule. New Russia Turns 20, Its Martyrs Forgotten
I recognised him and tried to say something but just ended up shuddering and gasping breaths, hyperventilating.
After unpacking my sleeping bag, toothbrush and kettle, I was gasping for a cup of tea.
Perhaps the play that turned the game most dramatically toward the Redskins was made by a defense that was ultra-violent all day long, dealing out two concussions and other gasp-provoking licks, even though it allowed the Eagles to lead in yardage, 353-293. Redskins' Donovan McNabb is the homecoming king in Philadelphia, but he wasn't alone
The rule, Sic vos non vobis, never altogether to be got rid of in mens Industry, now presses with such incubus weight, that Industry must shake it off, or utterly be strangled under it; and, alas, can as yet but gasp and rave, and aimlessly struggle, like one in the final deliration. Paras. 20-39
Some, including both our witnesses, cursed us between gasps of breath for dragging them up ‘some crazy hill’ on a hot summer's day.
With a great shove, he pushed them open and gasped at the sight.
It was only when he soaped away some of the mud covering the man's waist that he pulled back with a gasp.
Kylie gasped, clapping her hand to her mouth, when she heard the news.
Symptom: Larger fish, in particular gasping at the surface.
Gasps and exclamations of disgust and surprise rippled throughout the assembled crowd.
At his last gasp, he murmured the name of the person who shot him.
I felt sorry for the innumerable chubby people at the front who had to be gasping for air.
Since the ‘seed habit’ begins with the reduction to a single functional megaspore in each megasporangium, heterospory seems like a logical intermediate step.
She held on and he squeezed harder, until she gasped in pain and her fingers loosened.
There is hardly any mention, for example, of the portraits of two Dutch plenipotentiaries, Gaspar Meyer and, especially, Jacobus Blauw, a patriot of the left with Babouvist sympathies.
On the widescreen DVD edition, some of the lushly painted backgrounds left me agasp, and the animation teems with quality and craftsmanship. Weekly Mishmash: June 22-28 : Scrubbles.net
Mafia "pentito," or mobster-turned-witness, Gaspare Spatuzza told a court in Turin that a Mafia clan leader later jailed for the attacks had named Mr. Berlusconi, who had not entered politics at the time, in connection with the bombings. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed

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