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
"I wanted to see you, John, before the suit could come up," she began pantingly at once.
From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Nancy Huston Banks
Oh, Manuello," she cried, breathing pantingly, "what has happened here?
From An American by Belle W. Gue
