Example Sentences

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Children coming to see the green dinosaur will gasp before their parents do.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2024

She will sigh and she will gasp but there's no need for her to be out of breath ever.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2017

I know a dozen generals who will gasp, or laugh out loud, when they read those passages.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2011

If all goes well, the cow bell-clanging spectators will gasp in awe and admiration at the downhill daredevils and go home happy after a fun day out in the sunshine.

From Reuters • Feb. 14, 2010

Have you a friend who cannot tell you from one to three melodramatic tales, lying quite within his experience, at which you will gasp, "Why, it's as exciting as a novel!"

From Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by Williams, J. Scott (John Scott)