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out of breath
adverb as in gasping for breath
Example Sentences
By the time I got to Gate 40, I was giddy from shock and out of breath.
I’ll swing as high as I can, as fast as possible, until I’m out of breath.
“There’s a scene where Roz is running, and then it occurred to me, ‘Well, if I were running, I would be out of breath, but Roz is a robot, so she wouldn’t be out of breath,’ ” Nyong’o says.
He composes his songs at home - which are no longer than a minute long as he gets out of breath easily - and his sets last just 30 minutes.
Both men are out of breath and panting but still wrestling when passersby arrive and pull Nourani away, more than four minutes after the fight began.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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