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short-winded

[ US /ˈʃɔɹtˈwɪndɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. breathing laboriously or convulsively

How To Use short-winded In A Sentence

  • The friends stopped again -- poor, short-winded bodies -- on the crest of the low hill and turned to look at the wide landscape, bewildered by the marvelous beauty and the sudden flood of golden sunset light that poured out of the western sky. In Dark New England Days
  • In tertian fever, the morbific cause seeking the heart in the first instance, and hanging about the heart and lungs, renders the patient short-winded, disposed to sighing, and indisposed to exertion, because the vital principle is oppressed and the blood forced into the lungs and rendered thick. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
  • The Fat Boy, a rotund, short-winded little fellow, better dressed than the others although his shoes were not matching. Stan the Killer
  • The illness certainly affects a patients' quality of life because they often wake up short-winded, experience severe coughing or are hit by a heavy sensation in the chest.
  • Her eyes went round, and she spoke in a rapid, short-winded, staccato voice. Best Kept Secrets
  • His last valet was a big, foundered, short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty paces; but, as he had been born at Bayonne, M. Gillenormand called him Les Miserables
  • You get short-winded easily and you just aren't feeling your best.
  • [Reads] ‘I will imitate the honourable Romans in brevity:’ he sure means brevity in breath, short-winded. The second part of King Henry the Fourth
  • The Roundtable is fun to participate in and you can be as long or short-winded as you like. The DVD Trash Roundtable
  • In tertian fever, the morbific cause seeking the heart in the first instance, and hanging about the heart and lungs, renders the patient short-winded, disposed to sighing, and indisposed to exertion, because the vital principle is oppressed and the blood forced into the lungs and rendered thick. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
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