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heaving

noun as in panting

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I’ll be there, chest heaving, limbs heavy, eyes blurry, waiting for you.

From Slate

“Your heart being snapped into a new gear, a new rhythm, and your lungs heaving to keep up. It’s you using the body as an instrument, you can make melody, you can make sounds and you can move through space. It’s so primal and elemental that it creates a real sense of relief, which is why running and singing are my main passions.”

Love was attempting to throw the ball away to avoid a sack and a safety, heaving the ball blindly and into McCollough’s arms near the goal line.

The possessed woman convulsed in her folding chair, heaving with laughter, drawing enraptured hand-laying from her compatriots.

From Slate

None are desirable — especially the one involving heaving something other than a baseball — yet the former Sherman Oaks Notre Dame High star is a serious Cy Young Award contender in his third major league season.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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