Example Sentences

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Gasped Stengel “the only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.”

From Forbes • Sep. 16, 2014

Gasped Maudie in a supermarket: "Haven't you got anything�but anything�that's been touched by human hand?"

From Time Magazine Archive

Gasped a coed: "Why, it puts ideas into people's heads!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Gasped Joe, in the week's best gasp: "This is the most unheard-of thing I ever heard of."

From Time Magazine Archive

And Elenor Murray Gasped out her happiness for the pretty room, And stood and viewed the river and the hills, And wept a little on the gentle shoulder Of Irma Leese.

From Domesday Book by Masters, Edgar Lee