How to Use hyperventilate in a Sentence

hyperventilate

verb

• The boy panicked and began hyperventilating.
• The world was on fire, and Jan was hyperventilating from fear.
  — Author: Robin Abcarian, Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Oct. 2017
• Some may also hyperventilate, which can lead to fainting as well.
  — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
• In one scene Maisie freezes and hyperventilates, her eyes wide open, as Lex did when faced with raptors.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 22 June 2018
• But Min-su ends up hyperventilating as Nam-gyu stabs her to death anyway.
  — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
• Finneran said two of his 12 players began hyperventilating due to the heat and had to leave the game.
  — Mike Nortrup, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 24 Aug. 2019
• If this sounds like a laundry list of hyperventilating superlatives, then my work here is largely done.
  — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2025
• Belly hyperventilates and runs to the bathroom to calm down with Taylor.
  — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• The first was Tom Weeks, the owner of the hyperventilating dog.
  — By Andrew R Chow/granbury, Texas, TIME, 8 July 2024
• One of the dogs began hyperventilating and passed out but was revived with Narcan.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2018
• A bit of context for the press The media can hyperventilate with a dozen layoffs here, a buyout program there.
  — The Hive, 5 May 2017
• Walters walks down the center aisle, stopping for selfies with hyperventilating fans who find the courage to approach him.
  — Ryan D'agostino, Men's Health, 22 Aug. 2023
• Getting short of breath often brings on anxiety that causes some people to start to hyperventilate.
  — Sarah Klein, TIME, 20 Nov. 2024
• People ran pell-mell outside, sped away in cars with no clear destination, went to church, or just phoned the police or radio station to hyperventilate.
  — Nicolas Rapold, airmail.news, 23 Nov. 2024
• Anyhow, Rose continues to get more and more upset and nearly starts hyperventilating.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 18 Feb. 2025
• One witness said a group of women were wailing and hyperventilating in fear, some separated from their family members.
  — Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 22 July 2019
• Roscoe pulled over; his daughter started hyperventilating.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 9 Dec. 2025
• And Democrats, in predictable fashion, will be hyperventilating over every tenth-of-a-point shift in swing state polls and national polling averages.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2023
• But sometimes, a series will sneak through that offers more than titillation, cheap thrills, and hyperventilating aesthetics.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2024
• Fans have fingers crossed for tickets Hoosier fans hyperventilated at the prospect of being able to see Swift and her massive production in their backyard.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Aug. 2023
• As O’Leary’s news sank in, Palomba began to hyperventilate, and everything in her head felt jumbled.
  — Ruth Padawer, New York Times, 19 June 2018
• The 38-year-old gunman, who was hyperventilating, and the two hostages were taken to area hospitals for examination, just to be on the safe side, cops said.
  — Bob Kappstatter, New York Daily News, 9 June 2024
• But Karmie struggled to give coherent answers to several questions and often broke down in tears on the stand, at times almost hyperventilating.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• At points, his crackling prose froths over into hyperventilating superfan’s rants—an approach that befits a band with such a passionate following.
  — Saby Reyes-Kulkarni, SPIN, 20 Dec. 2023
• After complaining about extreme discomfort because his his hands were zip-tied behind his back for more than an hour, Zook began to hyperventilate and nearly passed out.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2017
• The usual suspects have been hyperventilating about the latest secondhand report of something Pope Francis said to a gay man.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 25 May 2018
• She was even famously hospitalized for hyperventilating while watching a Lakers game from home.
  — Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 2 May 2026
• For those grabbing for the paper bag after hyperventilating, NFL teams are more often than not in nickel defenses.
  — Larry Holder, NOLA.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Hiaasen was known for his love of James Taylor, and used to tell a story about nearly hyperventilating during an interview with the singer-songwriter.
  — Jean Marbella, baltimoresun.com, 29 June 2018
• Approaching the first landing in July of 1969, each of them sat hyperventilating.
  — Brandon R. Brown, Smithsonian, 12 July 2019