Sentence examples for hyperventilating from inspiring English sources

"hyperventilating" is a correct and usable word in written English
It is most commonly used in a medical context to refer to a person breathing deeper and more rapidly than usual due to anxiety or fear. For example, "She was so nervous about the test that she started hyperventilating."

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hyperventilating

verb

Present participle of hyperventilate

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Some commentators on both sides of the Irish Sea have been hyperventilating over Sinn Féin's fortunes and the possibility that the party could soon be sitting in power on both sides of the border.

One governor, Maryland's Martin O'Malley, a Democrat and a Catholic, accuses the Catholic leadership of "hyperventilating".

NEW YORKERS are no strangers to anxiety, but recently the city's moneymen have come close to hyperventilating.

Other cities such as Frankfurt and Singapore have also been awarded clearing banks, but London already controls nearly 60% of yuan-denominated trade payments between Asia and Europe, and this week's agreement will shore up its position.London's currency traders, however, will not be hyperventilating.

But how to explain this to Clare without arousing the suspicion that I'm just another smarmy, eel-slippery, promise-'em-anything yokel, hyperventilating to unload a house that's crumbling from the ground up?

No wonder some of Obama's most enthusiastic supporters, such as Andrew Sullivan, are hyperventilating.

When I sat down, ten days later, to talk with Jassim, a stout, bearded man in his fifties, he was hyperventilating with rage.

My father was laughing at this point, and I was doing something like hyperventilating.

Sparks needs a rest room again, the dogs are hyperventilating, but I dare not stop and lose more time... 7 32 p.m. Nectar of the gods!

You know we was just fooling with you, right?" They'd spring away, leave him tottering, hyperventilating, while they high-fived, more like amazed spectators than perpetrators.

(I hereby unveil myself as her proofreader — no easy role when you're hyperventilating).

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