gasper
Example Sentences
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I gasped loudly, the lone gasper in a room of eight-odd souls.
From Washington Post ● May 17, 2018
Former jocks chose push ups or the old football squad gasper, running in place; veterans of yoga groups did yoga bends; dancers did dancers' stretches.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Anybody aboard?" he bellowed as he wandered through the metal guts of the old gasper.
From Time Magazine Archive
O'Shaughnessy arose and respectfully drew him aside, offering him a "gasper".
From Snake and Sword A Novel by Percival Christopher Wren
Attorneys need, before they start, Five years of training, but the grasper Who grudges one to vocal art Will end, as he began, a gasper.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 15, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman
