Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: gasping
IPA transcription: [ɡ'æspɪŋ]
Usage examples
  • They ran to the rope, leaving him gasping there.
  • What!!--' The connection failed and left him gasping.
  • You men have left the whole South gasping at your bravery.
  • He came up, gasping, struck out and reached the further shore.
  • Again the queer gasping coughing noise broke from her lips, and at last I understood it.
  • She dragged the wash tub into the room with her feeble hands and sank on the bed, gasping for breath.
  • "Rosa," said Cornelius, almost gasping, "Rosa, there is not one moment to lose in writing the letter."
  • There were periods when fear clogged his throat and left him gasping with the need to scream and beat his cell walls.
  • He lowered his eyes--and remained motionless, gasping for breath, dazed, with fixed eyes, fairly driveling with terror.
  • The hands turned Odin upon his back and he lay there, gasping and hurting, like one who has just come up from deep water.