pant
verb (used without object)
to breathe hard and quickly, as after exertion.
have panted
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present perfectof pant.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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Yet could I have in my own heart all the passion, the love and joy, burned in the breasts that have panted, breathing deeply, since the hour of Ilion, yet still I should desire more.
From The Story of My Heart An Autobiography by Richard Jefferies
Had a steam-engine led the van, it would have panted, and puffed, and tugged in vain, along such a pathway.
From The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland by Harriet Ward
"Heaving" is appropriate enough to coals and to sighs, but "panting" belongs to successful lovers and spirited horses; and why should Mr. S.'s horse and horseman not have panted as heretofore?
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Rowland Edmund Prothero, Baron Ernle
One obstacle must have stood not a little in the way of that preferment, after which his whole life seems to have panted.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
In another chamber on the cielery we have panted Thetis dipping hir sone Achilles in the Ocean to render him immortall.
From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Lord John Lauder Fountainhall
