Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: gasps
IPA transcription: [ɡ'æsps]
Usage examples
  • "Injuns!" gasps Mord, and starts on the run for the house--to get his gun.
  • The Phoenix was breathing in hoarse gasps; its wings were pounding the air frantically.
  • It was purely human, it was a kecking sound in the throat, such as one makes who gasps for breath.
  • Throwing herself into her aunt's outstretched arms, she began to sob out her story between great, trembling gasps.
  • My breath was coming in quick, short gasps, cold sweat stood out from every pore of my body, and the ancient experiment of pinching revealed the fact that I was anything other than a wraith.
  • The otter hastily gasps for breath, and tightens his hold with his fore-claws; but when they are on their way down to the depths, and air-bubbles, like silver beads, roll through the water behind him, he has only to hold on and let himself go.
  • And even as ploughing oxen toil as they cleave the moist earth, and sweat streams in abundance from flank and neck; and from beneath the yoke their eyes roll askance, while the breath ever rushes from their mouths in hot gasps; and all day long they toil, planting their hoofs deep in the ground; like them the heroes kept dragging their oars through the sea.