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.
As I stood panting for breath after an hour's walk in Amazon-like conditions, the man leading us called a halt.
His chest panting, the big Guaranzen saw Hark rush him once more.
Part deep ingurgitated, part yet ftruggling With their laft pantings melt themfelves a grave 70 The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical
I was panting with the physical effort and the emotional turmoil into which I had just been thrust. The Sun
And for a family movie set in a restaurant, Campanella mercifully spares us any panting bliss-outs on the sensual nature of food.
But, alas, the printed word can not adequately convey the panting, gasping misery of this particular torment.
Ready!" attacked in his turn, striking hard and as swiftly as he could, but _crack, crack, crack_, wherever he struck, there was the defensive sapling; and at last, with his arm and shoulder aching, the boy lowered his point and stood panting, with his brow moist with beads of perspiration. The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War
Pallid and mad, he swift upsprang, and he tore up a tree by its lusty roots, and down the declivity, dashing with rapid leaps, panting and wild, he struck the ravisher on the temple with the mighty pine. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
Jack dropped to a walk, and the two girls, panting from the hard run, were not slow to follow his example. The Camp Fire Girls in the Woods, or Bessie King's First Council Fire
But April, with its whimsical showers and surprised days of panting heat, unnerves me and awakens animal desires.
Again: — Pallid and mad, he swift upsprang, and he tore up a tree by its lusty roots, and down the declivity, dashing with rapid leaps, panting and wild, he struck the ravisher on the temple with the mighty pine. A Review of 'Alroy'
He slipped it into his pocket anyway, stood for a moment panting for breath, and realized that he heard voices. A Time of War
Oxford Street is so clogged with London's signature double-decker buses — 300 passing every hour — that London Mayor Boris Johnson once called the sight "a panting wall of red metal. Londoners Take Aim at Scourge of the Sidewalks
A robin red-breast dropt from the frosty branches of the trees, upon the congealed rivulet; its panting breast and half-closed eyes shewed that it was dying: a hawk appeared in the air; sudden fear seized the little creature; it exerted its last strength, throwing itself on its back, raising its talons in impotent defence against its powerful enemy. II.9
She smiled and kissed the Coyote; he'd been fun, but now he was an exhausted hank of fur, panting hard in the back of the booth.
My chest heaved, I was panting, and my hair had become stringy and was sticking to my sweaty neck and face.
Panting and cursing with pain and rage he came back, head lowered.
Plus he had a respiratory infection, which accounted for the panting. Times, Sunday Times
She was panting from the run, and every breath looked like she might swell right through the mesh.
He was panting when he reached the top of the hill.
The only sound she could hear was her own desperate panting. A MEANS TO EVIL
But Ferriday was deep in love with his art; he was panting with the afflation of Apollo. We Can't Have Everything
There was something about his vulnerability, his panting and closing then unclosing his fists.
He came in panting after running up the steps.
Clip clop, clip clop: someone young is running and panting up to the top floor of the tower extension of the People's Palace. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
I've no inclination to hang around bridle paths, panting. Times, Sunday Times
Maybe we had the heir to a subtreasury panting to join us and maybe his freckles were his fortune. At Good Old Siwash
The pursuer is the more rapid, however, and gains upon her, and his panting breath blows upon her hair. The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian
Miss Mowcher untied her bonnet, at this passage of her discourse, threw back the strings, and sat down, panting, on a foot-stool in front of the firemaking a kind of arbour of the dining-table, which spread its mahogany shelter above her head. XXII. Some Old Scenes, and Some New People
Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.
Sometimes he would throw himself down on the towel rack, panting and puffing in total exhaustion.
I lay on the ground, panting and felt the bumps rising on my arm.
He was panting with desire for her.
The dog was panting because of the hot weather.
Not this morning: in a matter of seconds, she went through the perimeter and ran down the road, with pajamaed me in panting pursuit. Once every 7 months « The Life and Times of Organic Mama
All was silent except the panting of the Ellingham's and the occasional scrabble at the door.
Apart from the occasional lobster-hued jogger panting along through the blazing sun, no one appeared to live in the District.
She ran swiftly up the flights of spiraled staircase, panting and breathless.
And she mostly steadfastly ignores my shouted commands, my entreaties and panting demands to be set free when the siren songs call me again.
He was panting heavily, his chest heaving, as if he had just run a great distance.
Dog handler Shawn Griffin kneeled and grabbed a bobwhite quail from the panting pointer.
For a long time, she's been panting for a chance to show her acting ability, and now her chance has come!
He was panting when he reached the top of the hill.
She reared, pawing at the air, and slammed her hooves to earth, panting.
She climbed rapidly until she was panting with the effort.
Eventually, puffing and panting, he arrived at the gate.
Matteo arrived at the top of the hill, panting and covered in sweat.
He made towards the window and sat down in the chair closest to it, panting.
She can hear herself panting from exertion, the sound like static in the earpiece.
When he came to again, he heard a confused murmur of talk about him, and grew dimly aware that his late antagonist was standing over him, panting still and slightly swaying, and that an officer, a young athlete, was saying rebukeful words. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier
He looked fearfully at his sleeping companion, waited to hear the regular breathing, then dropped his voice to a hoarse panting. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
Panting, I fleetingly envied a couple being carried on litters like lords, an expensive yet terrifying (what if a porter slipped?) option.
Panting and bleeding lies the South, victorious and exultant is the North, and, let us say it with all respect, not without some grim generosity in her triumph. Echoes of the Week
Then, grunting with effort, they lunge furiously, colliding with resounding thwacks, red-faced and panting.
The dog was panting because of the hot weather.
In such a dimness was my head that I felt neither the soreness of my wounds nor the cuts of thorns on my knees, but stumbled towards the mill, almost past fear of man and death, panting with fear of the darkness that crept behind me from trunk to trunk. The Prussian Officer and Other Stories
Hold fast -- for life!" pantingly screamed Professor Featherwit, as he strove in vain to check or change the course of his aeromotor, now for the first time beyond control of that master-hand. The Lost City
The dog hopped over the creature and sat down next to him, panting.
a novel told in burbly panting tones
She clutched the mask and breathed short and deep, pantingly, making the respirator click.
Breathing" gets divorced from the company of piping and panting, and gets wed to the ensuing somatics of human passion, "burning" and "parching," while the possibility of "far above" as a location in imaginative surmise subsides to a sighing recognition of high aesthetic privilege, from which mortal humanity is excluded. The Know of Not to Know It: My Returns to Reading and Teaching Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' -
I am sweeping your bedroom for plastic explosives and that excited panting noise you can hear is my sniffer dog, Lucy. Times, Sunday Times
As she looked a woman jogged by with her twin children in a double stroller and a poodle tied to the handle bar panting behind.
A cabman who sits on a box and whips his horse, or a chauffeur who turns a wheel, is that and nothing more; but a gondolier is a romantic figure, and a gondola is a romantic craft, and the poor fellow has had to do it all himself, and did you hear how he was panting? and do look at those dark eyes! A Wanderer in Venice
Panting slightly, Laura began to wend her way between the tables, heard a woman hiss, `That's Laura Conway the photographer. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
Are you panting from exertion all the time during a dive in still water, instead of feeling relaxed?
Once the lads realized Jak o 'the Shadows was death, they started panting to find a bannerman. Lord of Chaos
When she at last rose it was with panting breath. Emily Fox-Seton
He himself escaped and fled nearly two hundred miles on a panting horse. Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
Something dangerous-sounding padded on soft feet into the warehouse and prowled around outside her field of vision, panting hungrily.
A few panting children defended a narrow strip of shade beside the school.
He forged ahead, panting and breathless.
She climbed rapidly until she was panting with the effort.
September 14th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Aussie cocktail princess Kylie Minogue is pronounced to have left fans in London panting after she was seen wearing a partially see-through white skirt which clung firmly to her figure. Kylie Bisutti : Victoria Secret's Newest Model, Jamie Lee Out?
He was panting for breath.
Miss Mowcher untied her bonnet, at this passage of her discourse, threw back the strings, and sat down, panting, on a footstool in front of the fire — making a kind of arbour of the dining table, which spread its mahogany shelter above her head. David Copperfield
She was panting with the effort of carrying the suitcase.
Miss Mowcher untied her bonnet, at this passage of her discourse, threw back the strings, and sat down, panting, on a footstool in front of the fire - making a kind of arbour of the dining table, which spread its mahogany shelter above her head. David Copperfield
If those old cordelle men could only come back for a while from their Walhalla, how they would crowd about that wind-splitting, fire-eating, iron beast, panting from its long run, and catching its breath for another plunge into the waste places and the night! The River and I
Duck to the bar, ducklings panting to a seat.
We drove, we saw: a pride of lions panting in the shade by a waterhole.
There was now like a sea of vonny runny dirty old men trying to get at me with their like feeble rookers and horny old claws, creeching and panting on to me, but our crystal droog was there in front, dealing out tolchock after tolchock. Where's the show?
Through the night she was panting and thrashing in her sleep, sometimes screaming out.
There's even a marvelous impression of an infatuated audience given by a horde of panting extras.
He now beheld Lenny rising with some difficulty -- still panting hard -- and with hysterical sounds akin to what is vulgarly called blubbering -- his fine new waistcoat sprinkled with his own blood which flowed from his nose -- nose that seemed to Lenny The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851
The samba beat has always left me purring and sometimes panting. Times, Sunday Times
For a moment he stood leaning heavily against its timbers, his breath coming in short panting sobs. The Snare
I was breathless from the moment and was panting for breath.
He had been warned by one of his aides that the cameras were panting to snap any display of the sulks.
Hanna lifted her head, breathing in short, panting gasps. Mercadian Masques
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Her eyes are partially closed as she lies there panting, the remains of a feral snarl becoming a sated smile.
The soul of Alleyn seemed to acquire new vigour from the conflict; he fought like a man panting for honour, and certain of victory; wherever he rushed, conquest flew before him. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story
She went up the stairs slowly, but panting for breath and she held Emily tightly against her side. A Little Princess
And when I did get out, I was away up the length of the street, trailing my long _jubbah_, glancing backward, panting, for I thought that she might dare to follow, with her daring evil will. The Purple Cloud
The metal chinked, and the door slid open, revealing Blaze, leaning heavily on the wall, panting.
He now beheld Lenny rising with some difficulty, still panting hard, and with hysterical sounds akin to what is vulgarly called blubbering, his fine new waistcoat sprinkled with his own blood, which flowed from his nose, -- nose that seemed to Lenny Fairfield's feelings to be a nose no more, but a swollen, gigantic, mountainous Slawkenbergian excrescence; in fact, he felt all nose! My Novel — Complete
They came panting up to his door with their unwieldy baggage.
The samba beat has always left me purring and sometimes panting. Times, Sunday Times
When Kirstle reached her room, panting and close to a faint, her heart almost skipped a beat when she saw the young lady sitting in a chair by her fire.
I was panting from the exertion, the call was really more a strained grunting series of messages as we all but ran down the slope……..into the gun smoke…possibly into Hell! Cheeseburger Gothic » Friday writing blog: point of view.
She went up the stairs slowly, but panting for breath and she held Emily tightly against her side. A Little Princess
Panting slightly, Laura began to wend her way between the tables, heard a woman hiss, `That's Laura Conway the photographer. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
Finally he let go, falling against the bedhead, elbows on knees, panting like a runner after a close finish.
Naturally you start to stroke the blob and it suddenly expands and pulsates like the exposed viscera of a panting puppy.
The sight of the little puppy hooked up to an IV, panting in his vet kennel, was one of the hardest things I've ever seen.
Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.
After running 1 000 metres, he was panting and puffing.
Mack pounded over to them, puffing and panting like he'd just run the marathon.
I thought clergymen always gave a big welcome to a sinner panting to repent! ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
I then heard panting noises near my face, which was the dog.
Panting slightly, Laura began to wend her way between the tables, heard a woman hiss, `That's Laura Conway the photographer. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
The school was empty and the court deserted, except for a few grave looking men who stood in the portico of the Bet-ha-Kahol, and towards them rushed the frantic melamed, panting and tearing his hair. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story
He was panting with desire for her.
But that it amounts to more than "shucks," despite the footman's epigram, is presently apparent when the staff-officer comes more slowly back, easing his panting horse. A War-Time Wooing A Story
The fox lay on its side in the heart of the road; panting, eyes blueing up with shock; a vixen. BEHINDLINGS
Father did like spunky women, especially if they were panting to take orders from him.
The dame drew up beside her and leaned hard against her, panting heavily in the thickened air. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
He had chased her all around until she was breathless, panting and gasping.
As Ki-Gor and Robert leaned panting on their assegais, the tribesman hunted down the dozen or so remaining gorilla-men, ringed each one with a bristling wall of steel, and cut them down. The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna
It's all so enticing - those galvanised planters, the dinky lamps to dangle from trees - that I'm revved up and excited and, by the time I reach the till, actually panting.
They leaned heavily against the wall, gasping and panting to catch their breath.
The bardling tried to let the bird fly about in the pitching, rolling cabin, but Rak clung painfully to the boy's left fist, gasping and panting. Escape From Roksamur
I was panting with the physical effort and the emotional turmoil into which I had just been thrust. The Sun
He came in panting after running up the steps.
Ryan's mind raised several questions, but just as he was about to voice the first, a heavily panting Melanie darted into the room.
Panting, Ruth looked desperately round at the great host of Women.
The sunshine was at first dazzling in its brightness, and he paused and rested, for he was panting from the exertion. Chapter VIII
Mother took a week to pack, and unpack, to go panting down-stairs to the corner drug-store for new tubes of tooth-paste and a presentable sponge, to remend all that was remendable, to press Father's flappy, shapeless little trousers with the family flat-iron, to worry over whether she should take the rose-pink or the daffodil-yellow wrapper -- which had both faded to approximately the same shade of gray, but which were to her trusting mind still interestingly different. The Innocents A Story for Lovers
The small group then began to clamber up the stepsnearly 500 of them, the lower few rows of massive foot-high granite setts muddy and slimy with the daily rise and fall of the river; the upper ones hot and dusty, and alive with hawkers and beggars and confidence men eager to trick any newcomers panting up from the riverside. next » Excerpt: The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester
He stood panting hard, then yowled and drew his sword, wielding it like a bat as he swung.
Her chest was panting faster by the second as he looked at her with those passionate blue eyes.
Within no time at all he was panting and sweating. Times, Sunday Times
He found her panting for breath at the top of the hill.
Three strangely dressed men stand in the moonlight by three panting camels.
The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily
Clip clop, clip clop: someone young is running and panting up to the top floor of the tower extension of the People's Palace. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
The pounding of the feet thunders so loud in the boy's ears that he can't even hear the desperate panting of his own lungs.
Göschen took the _Thalia_ (dropping the 'Rhenish'), Schiller paid his more pressing debts, and early in April was on his way to Leipzig, panting for the new friends as the hart panteth after the water-brooks. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
We reached my house, panting and out of breath but excited nonetheless.
The twelfth chime struck and Krizzia awoke panting.
Some hot-blooded youngsters envenomed with hatred of the Dane, or panting for the glory of warfare! His Disposition
The little boy was panting after the others.
There were not many sounds besides the panting of the engines; a night-bird or two, some frogs or insects. Red dust
At that moment the eye of the panting oratress caught mine for an instant, and you and The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith
Panting, he looked down at her and searched her face for any sign of murderous anger or heartfelt anguish.
There was the classic occasion which saw him run into the gym puffing, panting and dripping with sweat.
Panting, he placed his hand on his rising chest.
So at last, panting and all foredone, came I among these rocks and saw them open to a narrow cleft that gave upon a gorge a-bloom with flowers, a very paradise; and here, close to hand, a little pool fed by a rill or spring that bubbled up amid these mossy rocks. Martin Conisby's Vengeance
The metronomic allegretto is steady but pantingly quick, and the finale powers through at almost cartoon speed. Times, Sunday Times
As Arun knelt before him and unslung his bag, he could hear the fledgling panting: slow, rasping, shallow breaths.
He came in panting for a cup of tea.
She couldn't catch her breath; she was panting for air, sweating profusely, her vision spinning.
The way behind him was blocked, so he vaulted to the stage and disappeared behind the curtains, panting but triumphant. DEATH IN FASHION
The dame drew up beside her and leaned hard against her, panting heavily in the thickened air. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Panting for breath, and stripping off her clothes as she moved, she walked to the window. A TIME OF WAR
As luck would have it, I had ridden to school that day, and cycled quickly to the nearest butcher and pantingly ordered another load.
They came panting up to his door with their unwieldy baggage.
I scrambled, panting and reeling, past the rock and onto a gravel shelf.
Still panting, Ermo slowly removes her babushka and the many layers of her winter clothing, as a perplexed Xiazi looks on passively.
Panting, he flattened himself against a mold-streaked stone wall, praying it would be just another sentry.
He came in panting for a cup of tea.
We sat in silence for a few minutes until our peace was shattered as a messenger ran up to us, puffing and panting.
Instead, Google compiles facts and delivers information as well as news clips to its panting audience.
The monster was panting, or whimpering or something, and the yellow guck was still spouting out of its severed limbs.
Falkon shot into Avaria, panting and blowing like a horse.
Embajador stands as if planted in the sand, alone, exhausted by his charges and confrontations with the picadores, visibly panting, his flanks heaving, abandoned by the matador who disappears behind a barrera. There is no such thing as a bullfight
Often the horse does his work with panting sides and trembling knees, and not seldom gets a cut of the whip from his rider.
During the delivery of this little speech, uncle Jacob had been sobbing and panting like a broken-winded horse; and when Mary had done, he rushed up to her and kissed her, and held her tight in his arms. The Paris Sketch Book
For the first 30 minutes, there are no branches, so I sprint upward in bursts, and then rest in my harness, panting and spinning in the open air. Taking Tree-Hugging to New Heights
The burnet moths, without the competitive fuss between elite athletes and panting also-rans, just seemed beautifully better at it. Country diary
He made Jerry Lee Lewis's panting musical rants of wolf-calling ardor look like a Sunday Comics installment of January Jones. Big Bopper Update
He slipped it into his pocket anyway, stood for a moment panting for breath, and realized that he heard voices. A Time of War
He stood on his thin, shaking legs in the ludicrous sleeves of his pants, his buckled chest panting in a dishcloth vest. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
He seamed to be panting heavily, breathing in deep, short and furious gasps as if he had been running forever.
Frona lay, head thrown back, sobbing at the sun; amidships Corliss sprawled panting; and forward, choking and gasping and nerveless, the CHAPTER 25
He set off across the marble lake at a canter, with Helen panting behind.
Of the two, he was faring worse, panting, gasping, even appearing to be near collapse.
He was panting heavily as he ran.
Arun seized the bowl and bolted the cold food himself, spurred both by hope and the fledgling's panting breaths.
With panting joy that she was there at last, joy that overcame all distress, Maggie neared the front of the house. V. The Last Conflict. Book VII—The Final Rescue
Because they're not following you in panting desperation for your next morsel of linguistic loveliness, they're following you because they want more followers themselves. Jonathan Fields: The Truth About Author Platforms
And his over-eager, panting insistence that Australia sign verges on the degrading.
It's a film that will have red-blooded cinemagoers pantingly clambering off the ride at the end and staggering over to the queue for tickets to get straight back on again.
My chest heaved, I was panting, and my hair had become stringy and was sticking to my sweaty neck and face.
He now beheld Lenny rising with some difficulty, still panting hard, and with hysterical sounds akin to what is vulgarly called blubbering, his fine new waistcoat sprinkled with his own blood, which flowed from his nose, -- nose that seemed to Lenny My Novel — Volume 03
She lay there, panting and heaving, feeling her blood drain away from her body and out through her torn clothes.
Look at the poor little trepid creature, panting and helpless under the great eyes! The Virginians
Casey ran around the small oval, puffing and panting, limping on her left foot, the blister throbbing excruciatingly.
She was panting hard and her face was really red, like she was embarrassed to be late.

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