Example Sentences

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Across Wall Street, strategists have been breathlessly gaming out various scenarios for markets and the global economy.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 9, 2026

“These prediction markets you are breathlessly defending are gambling—pure and simple.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

“Apparently, Usha said, ‘This is what our life should actually be like,'” Lambert breathlessly claimed.

From Salon • Aug. 11, 2025

When I ran breathlessly through her list of triumphs — “Anything Goes,” “Sweeney Todd,” “Gypsy,” among them — Farrow decreed that they should name a theater after her friend.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2024

I grab the journal and skip breathlessly over to Throne Rock.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish