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• Reds was a jack boy who left mostof his victims breathless.2015, Gregory McDowell, Chosen Path. From the entry jack boy
• Most strike the same ominously breathless tone, and all reach the same vague nonconclusions.2008 February 6, Neil Genzlinger, “Otherworldly Phenomena: Explainable? You Decide”, in New York Times. From the entry nonconclusion
• This should be considered in any patient who becomes hypotensive, breathless and anuretic following catheterisation (11).2007, Eileen O'Grady, A Nurse's Guide to Caring for Cardiac Intervention Patients, page 31. From the entry anuretic
• He slid along it pell-mell, breathless at the speed and the whirl of colors around him.2005, Melanie Rawn, The Star Scroll, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry moonrun
• “Ye'd beat me?” She was suddenly breathless.1995, Catherine Coulter, The Duke, →ISBN. From the entry ye'd
• She has a little breathless voice and a startled little laugh; even her name is like a powder puff.1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, page 295. From the entry Susie
• We were watching breathless, as he set himself for a long thin jenny, with the black of all balls.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry jenny
• Their straining eyes abacinated by the cup of terror, their throats stopped, their powers dead within them, they hung breathless, motionless.1945, Robert Hardy Andrews, Burning Gold, page 196. From the entry abacinate
• A complete absorption testified their breathless interest.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry absorption
• Stringham, who rustled in a little breathless and full of the compunction of having had to come alone.1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove. From the entry scratch
• The above is worth remembering as the presidential race turns the corner into its most feverishly speculative, excessively breathless phase: the veepstakes.2012 April 2, Frank Bruni, “And now, the veepstakes”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry veepstakes
• It was a breathless whisper from a porcelain goddess, pale cheeks accentuating striking blue eyes and glossy pink lips, full and parted with shallow breaths.2012, Julie Lessman, A Love Surrendered. From the entry porcelain goddess
• However, her cute and breathless girliness was an elaborate cover up for a very clever young woman who was both ambitious and ruthless.2011, Bernardine Kennedy, Shattered Lives. From the entry girliness
• When Valletta's breathless heat became intolerable, the family would load all their furniture onto carts and, with their two maids, climb into two horse-drawn karozzin.2000, Aline P’nina Tayar, “A View from the Balcony”, in How Shall We Sing?: A Mediterranean Journey Through a Jewish Family, Sydney…. From the entry karozzin
• In the opening 40 minutes Löw’s team had been ambushed here, the world champions run into a state of breathless trauma by a thrillingly vibrant Mexico attack.2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry ambush
• It becomes a grotto, hubbubbing with more noise than any class on a school visit could make, the air mobbed by breathless chatter about life and the transfer window.2016, Daniel Gray, Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry hubbub
• He took his time, deliberate over the small action, held the kip for a long breathless moment, then jerked his wrist and the pennies were in the air.1951, Jon Cleary, The Sundowners, published 1952, page 208. From the entry kip
• She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 1, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN. From the entry extemporizing

Meaning of breathless

1. adjective Having difficulty breathing; gasping.
2. adjective That makes one hold one's breath (with excitement etc.).
3. adjective Not breathing; dead or apparently so.

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Questions about breathless in a sentence

How do you use breathless in a sentence?

Breathless is used as an adjective. For example: “By that stage Sevilla were down to 10 men and Jorge Sampaoli, their manager, had been sent to the stands as a breathless encounter started to spiral out of control.”

What is a short sentence with breathless?

“A complete absorption testified their breathless interest.”

What does breathless mean?

Breathless means having difficulty breathing; gasping.