They speak in whispers or in great gulps of nervousness.
He took great gulps of whiskey until his worst memories scattered.
Three-quarters of the picture is sky, great gulps of air filled with the wings of wheeling ducks.
Her laugh was infectious, and sounded as if she were taking in great gulps of air — a laugh that was on the verge of the hiccups.
The fact is that I love doing it and am never happier than when embedded with a complex narrative, slowly revealing itself over great gulps of time.
Foraging entirely on small fish, fin whales take great gulps of sea water to trap their prey, expanding their stomachs like concertinas and filtering their food through plates of baleen in their mouths (the whalebone once prized by corset-makers).
For an audience like this, his exotic slang and counterintuitive rhythms are the main draw, and he didn't disappoint, traversing the truck bed while spitting out great gulps of unpredictable syllables.
Heche has done the same thing so often herself, making brave new starts seemingly fueled by great gulps of hope and wonder — until boom, it all falls down and she has to start again — that she brings an unexpected poignancy to the role.
At low tide, we walk the beach, drinking in great gulps of salty sea air, allowing the raw rumble of resurgent waves to sponge the stress from our souls.
