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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
gasp .
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Examples
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And the captain gasped out his last under the palm trees of the isle unnamable while the brown maidens wept about him and fanned the air to his parching lungs.
CHAPTER X 2010
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A man next to Kuzmin gasped and made the sign of the cross.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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And the captain gasped out his last under the palm trees of the isle unnamable while the brown maidens wept about him and fanned the air to his parching lungs.
Chapter 10 1917
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The sword gasped and gobbled but was too outraged to find words.
Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999
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Margot gasped at the thought, and felt her heart leap painfully at every fresh sound.
Big Game A Story for Girls George de Horne Vaizey 1887
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Marian bent over her, and at last heard one word gasped out -- "Walter."
The Two Guardians or, Home in This World Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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I kind of gasped when I saw the civil war poster … I had forgotten that Bill has been around that long!
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And the audience kind of gasped; Hostess Samantha didn't know what to say.
Tonya Plank: Dancing With the Stars First Round Eliminations Unsurprising 2008
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And he just kind of gasped for air and he just closed his eyes and started bleeding out of the mouth.
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And he just kind of gasped for air and he just closed his eyes and started bleeding out of the mouth.
yarb commented on the word gasped
Argh! Coming across this word when reading aloud is like riding your bike through treacle.
June 5, 2008
rolig commented on the word gasped
You could go back a few hundred years and say it as two syllables: "gaspèd".
June 5, 2008