Example Sentences

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"Twenty-eight of our colleagues were trapped in the rooftop of the building for hours... They were gasping for fresh air," Ahmed said.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2025

It felt like when some of us were gasping for breath, everyone else just had a collective shrug and didn’t think anything of it.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2022

“They did an amazing job and, honestly, it didn’t look like they were gasping for air. It didn’t look like treading water,” Wheeler said.

From Washington Times • Nov. 24, 2019

When they went to bed one night, their turkeys were healthy; the next morning, almost 100 were dead and hundreds more were gasping for breath.

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2016

Then I saw his tiny mouth open as if he were gasping for breath.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls