pant
verb (used without object)
to breathe hard and quickly, as after exertion.
pantingly
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a word derived from
pant.
Example Sentences
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Even in a league where every season is more pantingly hyperbolic than the last, this feels like a significant point for English football’s great project.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2017
Writers will miss their old machines greatly, even as they now flirt pantingly with Apple IIs.
From Time Magazine Archive
She clutched hold of the mask and breathed short and deep, pantingly, making the respirator click.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
Dear Miller,—Your study of me arrives! and I have pantingly turned the pages to find the eulogistic adjectives, and find them in such abundance that my head swims.
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James
“Yes; yes, dear,” the words came pantingly smothered.
From At the Crossroads by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock
