How To Use last gasp In A Sentence
- At his last gasp, he murmured the name of the person who shot him.
- In Africa the last flood of Germanic invasions spent itself within hearing of the last gasp of Byzantium, and it was through Africa that Islam came to play its great rôle of conqueror and civilizer. DARKWATER
- This is the last gasp of the confederacy trying to refight the civil war. Rep. Kline to Obama: 'start from scratch' on health care
- One listening for cries of fear or pleas of mercy would have heard none; men, women or children, they died slashing and clawing, their last gasp a sob of fury, or a snarl of quenchless hatred. People of the Dark
- Kept alive today more by photographers than painters, it began to emit its last gasps as a vehicle for Pop Artists in the 1960s and 1970s who wanted to revel in a consumer mania that made those Netherlandish gluttons look abstemious.
- Catz dallied on the ball in the left-back slot and the alert Woodcock stole the ball, but he was stopped from finishing at the last gasp.
- The cor de chasse was a delightful novelty to me, and I soon learned all the calls -- the débouché, the vue and the hallali, when the poor beast is at the last gasp. Chateau and Country Life in France
- Hopefully, this last gasp of imperialism supported by industrial capitalism will be short-lived.
- And those figurative ukiyo-e prints literally "of the floating world" of geisha, courtesans, prostitutes, and queer samaurai and kabuki actors beloved by the impressionists and their ilk as often as not chronicled the last gasp of indigenous pan-sexuality that moralistic Western states demanded the Japanese purge themselves of in order to benefit from their much-needed trade. G. Roger Denson: China Takes Top Spot in Art Auction Sales Away From the US & UK -- What It Means for Global Culture
- They started to win possession at will and got their reward with a last gasp goal which was a fitting reward for their great second half performance.
