pant
verb (used without object)
to breathe hard and quickly, as after exertion.
has panted
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present perfectof pant (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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It appears so easy of access; and yet many a valiant philosopher, from Humboldt down, has panted for the glory and failed.
From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by James Orton
He has panted for new lands, and for still extended boundaries.
From North America — Volume 2 by Anthony Trollope
My ambition has panted, with equal avidity, after the reputation of literature and opulence.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
So you will recognise how, from Chaucer down, our literature has panted after the Mediterranean water-brooks.
From On The Art of Reading by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
