Sentence examples for but gasps from inspiring English sources

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The laughter is raucous, but gasps of shock can also be heard.

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But gasping isn't the same as laughing.

I had no idea what I was looking at but gasped "Oh!

"There was nothing to do but gasp," Warner wrote of his first glimpse of decorated caves.

I valiantly tried to shop for dresses at Bloomingdale's while pumping away on the Precor, an elliptical Stairmaster, but gasping for air made it hard to concentrate.

—Standing before flat screen television monitors and high-tech looking computer screens Mr. McCormack didn't take questions from the press, but gasp! — from the public.

The piece's first phrase is murderously difficult, because it starts with a rest (it's not DA-da-da-DUM but GASP-da-da-da-DUM), and because the pulse and the tension have to be established immediately.

She is moving, not to a swanky Fifth Avenue duplex or an exclusive Park Avenue co-op listed by her firm, but (gasp!) across the East River to a condominium penthouse just south of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Russia promised to stop all deliveries of weapons to Iran by Dec. 31, 1999, but (gasp!) it has violated this.

Some may find it difficult to imagine a world without BMWs or Birkenstocks, but (gasp) such a world exists and offers investors a solid opportunity.

But the crowd wasn't laughing but gasping in amazement after watching Watson on No. 18.

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