panting

How To Use panting In A Sentence

• When she at last rose it was with panting breath. Emily Fox-Seton
• In chantries unrehearsed we'd wow the votarists and serenade the friary to panting ecstasies while summoned to kingly chambers we branked the troubadours, turning the sovereign mind to heaven, the courtiers left speechless with neglect... Strange Bedfellows
• In other cases panting is caused, i.e. the mechanism most often seen in the dog under natural conditions, when it is hot. Walter Hess - Nobel Lecture
• She was panting: her breath forming strings of transient puffs in the cold air.
• The newspapers are panting for details of the scandal.
• gentled" him all over his miserable frame, as he lay panting and overpowered on the sawdust, conquered and convinced at last, all his mistakes and misconceptions of other people came before him, as plainly as if Taffy himself had spoken them; so plainly, that he wondered at himself. Parables From Nature
• Then, within ten feet of the goal, Robbie's pace slowed suddenly to the merest of crawls, and Gloria, with one final burst of wild speed, dashed pantingly past him to touch the welcome bark of home-tree first.
• He scrambled to his little feet, his eyes were wild with something old, stronger and feral, panting and gasping for air.
• As she picked the apple up, her lover panting and almost winded touched the goal.
• The effort must have taken a lot out of him, but when he had gathered enough breath to speak, he did so with panting breaths.