BREATHLESSLY in a Sentence

Learn BREATHLESSLY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
126 example sentences for BREATHLESSLY, such as:
1. He forged ahead, panting and breathless.
2. The long climb left Jan feeling breathless.
3. He paused, breathless, as he came up to her.
4. He arrived breathless at the top of the stairs.
5. The dance left her feeling breathless and weak.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of BREATHLESSLY
breathless
 a.  tending to cause suspension of regular breathing
 a.  appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
Classic Sentence: (118 in 8 pages)
1  "I know you're surprised," Melanie rattled on, breathlessly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  She had no very clear idea what he meant but she clung breathlessly on his words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
3  She said "Oh" breathlessly and sat down hard on the sofa.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
4  Though her hair was tumbling about her shoulders, her bosom heaving breathlessly and her skirts mud splattered to the knees, his face did not change with surprise or question or his lips twist with mockery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
5  "Ona lies in her room all day," the boy went on, breathlessly.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
6  They were breathlessly intent upon keeping the ground and thrusting away the rejoicing body of the enemy.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
7  Prince Andrew was watching these men abashed by the Emperor's presence, and the women who were breathlessly longing to be asked to dance.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVI
8  At the last post station before Otradnoe he gave the driver a three-ruble tip, and on arriving he ran breathlessly, like a boy, up the steps of his home.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I
9  Mrs. Linton bent forward, and listened breathlessly.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  It seemed a little uncanny to me, and I listened to her breathlessly.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  Her mind stood still as if paralyzed for a long, breathless instant, and then raced forward.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  He paused, breathless, as he came up to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  The sight of so much hurrying made Scarlett, fresh from rural leisure and quiet, almost breathless, but she liked it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  She was stout, pink-cheeked and silver-haired and always a little breathless from too tightly laced stays.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  She waited a moment, breathless for him to continue, a-tiptoe to hear him say the magic three words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence:
1  He forged ahead, panting and breathless.
2  He arrived breathless at the top of the stairs.
3  As you listen, you notice how every single word is imbued with a breathless sense of wonder.
4  I was a little breathless and my heartbeat was bumpy and fast.
5  The long climb left Jan feeling breathless.
6  The dance left her feeling breathless and weak.
7  She was hot and breathless from the exertion of cycling uphill.
8  China joined the world in breathless coverage of the Chilean mine rescue, but when a gas blast killed 21 Chinese miners, the national TV news didn't say a word.