Sentence examples for great gasp from inspiring English sources

Minutes later, in the bottom half, Fister was struck in the back of the head by a line drive off the bat of Gregor Blanco: a great gasp, and then a great sigh, as he turned out to be O.K., and continued.

(It's amazing how the deathbed scene, a staple of fiction and painting in Dickinson's era, has all but vanished from cinema, the last great gasp being Bergman's "Cries and Whispers," in 1972. Moviegoers wanting mortality today must get it in short and savage doses).

Great Gasp and Looping Starship were both removed by the end of the 2005 season to make room for the roller coaster.

By the end of the 2005 season, the rides Great Gasp and Looping Starship were closed and removed from the park to make room for the new roller coaster.

She got from side to side somehow, but with wild movements of her arms and great gasps of breath.

But this novel has a superabundance of the great, gasping utterance, the basic splutter of verb and noun, such as made Samuel Beckett a master.

Made in the early 1960's, when Smith's career was drawing to a close and Minimalism was just around the corner, these works are one of the last great gasps of the tradition of Cubist-based welded-steel sculpture that began with Picasso and Julio Gonzalez.

A great gasping silence followed as the air hung low, sweaty and hairy like an actual cunt.

It's a riveting turn, one that brings greater gasps from the audience than the most dazzling of acrobatic shows.

The musicians are about to tackle three fiercely difficult late works of Richard Strauss, from the great dying gasp of German Romanticism.

In November 2013, comprehensive reform legislation that had passed the Senate, the effort's great last gasp, died in the House as Speaker John Boehner capitulated to right-wing legislators unimpressed with the bill's enforcement and border militarization measures.