breathless
adjective
without breath or breathing with difficulty; gasping; panting.
breathlessness
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a word derived from
breathless.
Example Sentences
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The de-extinction breathlessness potentially endangers real animals for the sake of hypothetical future de-extincted ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
“There was a breathlessness to the selling, and the message they sent was to cash in now because the ride won’t last forever,” Silverman wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
It causes worsening breathlessness, a dry cough, and fatigue, typically affecting older adults.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
Researchers used this data to calculate both total activity and the share that was intense enough to cause breathlessness.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 30, 2026
The breathlessness of the air was growing as they climbed; and now they seemed often in the blind dark to sense some resistance thicker than the foul air.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
