Example Sentences

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Words do more than hurt, they also slash and burn in this sharp, dyspeptic, sometimes gaspingly funny exploration of art and life, men and women, being and nonbeing, and the power and limits of language.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2014

Jamie and Dylan do more than trade teasing laughs, they slam their lines like Chinese Ping-Pong champs, hurling the quips so fast at times that it’s a wonder they don’t gaspingly reach for the oxygen.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2011

He laughed gaspingly, hysterically, and Jeff regarded him from time to time tolerantly and smoked.

From The Prisoner by Brown, Alice

It makes Talbot draw his own breath gaspingly to think of it.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda

Down he plunged into the river and far, far under it, fighting his way gaspingly to the surface.

From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson