Example Sentences

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Meanwhile, many local broadcasters are gasping to stay solvent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

“The economy is so bad, we are gasping for air. It’s like dying while living, so just take whatever protection we can.”

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2021

Often when we arrive the patients look terrified and are breathing so fast, they are gasping and simply unable to speak.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2021

The disease gets its name from the sound people make when they are gasping for breath.

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2019

So it goes here: we are gasping and sweltering one hour, and plunging through snow banks the next.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher