gasping

"We were gasping for our breath," he recalled.

The statement is intended to shock and affirm his ongoing mastery of the media’s knee-jerk gasping condemnation.

“The sheer volume of controversial orders leaves everyone gasping. Some are lawful and some are not. I am pretty confident that the courts will strike down the unlawful ones,” he said.

The news left Allen gasping in disbelief, given the state of the surroundings.

California was gasping through its worst drought in 1,200 years — a drought so severe that it left America’s fruit basket withering on the vine.