'gasping' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when describing a physical reaction from someone. For example: "She felt the cold air and began gasping for breath."
Carr described that period for the ALP as playing out a "Jacobean revenge drama: in one act the knife is flashing, the blood is flowing, the next act that's got to be avenged, the next act he's smoldering with hatred, the final act the stage is littered with gasping corpses".
The tax cut package is a variations of ideas already proposed by Ukip and the Liberal Democrats, but left Labour gasping at "the audacity of David Cameron offering himself as custodian of public finances, and the provider of such unfounded tax cuts".
They were simply too much for Swindon, from first minute to last, playing with a level of intensity and ruthlessness that had Mark Cooper's men gasping for air as early as the third minute, when Beckford struck for the first time.
These 'cosmetic' measures will do nothing to save the NHS from the plight of the £20bn 'Nicholson Challenge', rising demand due to complex medical problems and chronic illness, emerging problems of lack of doctors and nurses in some specialities, overburdened general practices and scores of hospitals gasping for oxygen", said Chand.
In doing so, he "cooled" the part of his mind that was gasping for nicotine and "warmed up" the calculating bit by making the future consequences of smoking – the stench, the disease – a part of his immediate visceral experience.
It has captured the birth of a new baby, clashes at the G20 protests, London marathon runners gasping for breath, cheery observations from Stephen Fry and bad jokes from Tony Blackburn.
Writing my third novel, with three small children, a supportive partner and a mostly calm and happy life, I woke one dark middle of the night gasping for air.
The danger of red-hot curries is that they can leave one gasping and in tears.
While Czechs spent freely on imported consumer goods, exporters have been gasping.
AT THE end of a hard year Europe's leaders are grappling with familiar problems—how to revive gasping economies, what to do about the Russian menace.
THE financial crisis left many banks and other financial institutions gasping.
