Sentence examples for we were gasping for from inspiring English sources

We were gasping for air".

We were gasping for breath.

At the end of one manic rally (remember, Mr. Durso was wearing dress shoes and slacks), we were gasping for breath and laughing like a couple of kids.

She used to do kids’ shows and when we saw her play an art gallery last year, she was wearing a leotard and screaming, “Aliens, destroy!” so loud we were gasping for air.

She used to do kids' shows and when we saw her play an art gallery last year, she was wearing a leotard and screaming, "Aliens, destroy!" so loud we were gasping for air.

"Because we're not going that fast, compared to our normal training it's not lung burning, like when we're flat-out racing we're gasping for breath and our respiratory system is on the brink and struggling to make it.

This is because we can't help anyone if we are gasping for air.

How can we live 15 minutes from the downtown of the second largest city in the country and here we are gasping for breath in Skunk Central?

The film "too often plays as no more than an excuse to display [Luhrmann's] frantic, frenetic personal style," Turan adds, as the director and his team "pile on the spectacle and the glitter until we are gasping for air".

My lungs were gasping for air, we were all laughing so hard.

People were gasping for breath and shouting for help.