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out of breath

adverb as in gasping for breath

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Example Sentences

She was out of breath and barely able to stand.

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.

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

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