How To Use Last gasp In A Sentence
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At his last gasp, he murmured the name of the person who shot him.
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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
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This is the last gasp of the confederacy trying to refight the civil war.
Rep. Kline to Obama: 'start from scratch' on health care
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Hopefully, this last gasp of imperialism supported by industrial capitalism will be short-lived.
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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
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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.
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Pre-match and at half-time the air was filled with radio re-runs of derby commentaries, where last gasp winners and never-say-die fightbacks seem to have become part and parcel of the Tynecastle package.
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the last gasp of the cold war
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I judge of other men's lives, I ever respect how they have behaved themselves in their end; and my chiefest study is, I may well demeane my selfe at my last gaspe, that is to say, quietly and constantly.
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
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When I judge of other mens lives, I ever respect how they have behaved themselves in their end; and my chiefest study is, I may well demeane my selfe at my last gaspe, that is to say, quietly and constantly.
That We Should Not Judge of Our Happiness Until after Our Death.
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The team were at their last gasp when the whistle went.
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The Celtic manager is the first to confess he is indecisive when it comes to signings, and he has a habit of holding off until the last gasp before committing to player recruitment.
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Secondly, the sex scenes are mostly implied, which is a welcome break for everyone tired of sitting duteously in darkened theatres through in-your-face sex to the last gasp, waiting for the time when films once again celebrate subtleties and the gift of imagination.
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It still took a last gasp goal to save Erin's Own, but the certainty is they'll return to the fray on Saturday all buoyed up.
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At his last gasp, he murmured the name of the person who shot him.
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At his last gasp, he murmured the name of the person who shot him.
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At his last gasp, he murmured the name of the person who shot him.
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This cold spell appears to be winter's last gasp for the year.
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At his last gasp, he murmured the name of the person who shot him.
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He thought postmodernism wasn't a real epoch, just the last gasp of modernism before the next phase started.
THE SAVING GRACES
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With his last gasp, he murmured the name of the person who shot him.
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My Adversary himself, now drawing to a conclusion, seems to be inclining to good opinions: and as dying men, are much given to repentance, so finding his cause at the last gasp, he unburthens his Conscience and disclaims the principles of a Common-wealth, both for himself, and for both Houses of Parliament, which is indeed to be over-officious: for one of the Houses will not think they have need of such a Compurgator.
His Majesties Declaration Defended
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This is the last gasp of summer.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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This is the last gasp of summer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Such virtuoso, highly finished bronze groups can be seen as the last gasp of the great tradition of Florentine art.
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But there was still time for one last gasp dramatic twist to this spellbinding semi-final.
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To me it felt like a last gasp of normality, an act of defiance in the face of the impending trial.
KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
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But it also was the last gasp for a team on the slide.
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Sometimes staying at hotels, but just as often the guest of resident expatriates, he mixed in rather refined circles, witnessing the last gasp of the old plantocracy and the colonial system.
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This is the last gasp of summer.
Times, Sunday Times
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For instance; that after the long course of a most lewd and flagitious life, a man may be reconciled to God, and have his sins forgiven at the last gasp, upon confession of them to the priest, with that imperfect degree of contrition for them, which they call attrition, together with the absolution of the priest.
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 04.
