Synonym: choke, pant, puff. Similar words: gas, gaseous, so long as, as long as, gasoline, outgassing, gas chamber, grasp. Meaning: [gæsp /gɑːsp] n. a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open. v. breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted.
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61. Large-scale, publicly-owned enterprises will breathe their last gasp and wither away well before the state which spawned them.
62. There was a gasp from the children and a high scream from Millie as the scissors went snip, snip, snip.
63. This is the last gasp of the Romantic revolution that Beethoven instigated.
64. Cecilia heard herself gasp and at once put her hand up to her mouth.
65. He heard himself gasp and gurgle, saliva and blood spitting past the merciless wire.
66. She heard him gasp at the sheer beauty of her superb feminine body.
67. But it also was the last gasp for a team on the slide.
68. But the poor paunchy guy had been stuffed into a jumpsuit from which he seemed to gasp for air.
69. Next second she gave a gasp, and beckoned Shirley to hurry.
70. Water washed off her bloated face, eyes bulged, an aborted gasp, her nose and upper lip already gone.
71. Gasp, just north of Wilshire, offers imported furniture, plus antiques and home accessories.
72. Her head shot round, her shocked gasp mingling with the audible hiss of sharply indrawn breath.
73. Marc murmured something and turned over, and Sarella sat up with a gasp of embarrassment.
74. Barely giving himself time to catch Mrs Hassock's gasp of astonishment he dashed back to Jason.
75. Bette concluded with a gasp and sank her teeth into her sandwich.
76. The silence was broken occasionally by a muffled gasp or a quivering sigh that was more like the hiss of air brakes.
77. Sometimes even negative change is interpreted as merely the last gasp of the resistant old order.
78. The gasp of delight is all the stronger for the trick played being nearer to hand.
79. The excitement and food simply welled up inside him and he gave a short gasp and vomited all over the carpet.
80. Almost disinterestedly, she turned the paper over, and gave a gasp of shock, her heart missing a beat.
81. Before him lay precious stones of such size,(http://sentencedict.com/gasp.html) variety and colour that would have made anyone who was not royal gasp.
82. Bernice sucked in air with a rasping gasp that hurt her throat.
83. Sarella jerked her head round, then gave a small gasp.
84. He thought he made some kind of strangled gasp; he knew his eyes would have expressed his emotions.
85. Across from me, the door opened and I heard some one gasp.
86. I let out an involuntary gasp. Electric lights sprang on all over the ceiling in an irregular pattern.
87. There was a gasp and a great cry from the watching people.
88. Jehana gave a gasp of exasperation, and she stood up.
89. I only had time to gasp in horror, before I saw that Heathcliff had caught him.
90. Instead, it is surging ahead in the polls leaving the opposition to gasp with envy.
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