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Recent Examples of gasp
Verb
There was a pause, a collective gasp, among the spectators.—Hanif Abdurraqib
june 12, Literary Hub, 12 June 2025 Occasional gasps arose as the asteroid took shape and a jagged, rocky surface filled the view.—IEEE Spectrum, 11 June 2025
Noun
Lots happens along the way, including the pair running into a pregnant infected woman, who gives birth to (gasp?) a completely healthy and normal baby, and eventually finding their way to Kelson.—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 20 June 2025 Williams’ family was sitting at the back of the courtroom and collectively gasped when prosecutors revealed the little boy is believed to have been alive when Williams threw him from the bridge.—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 12 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for gasp
When videos of Serwa heaving a knuckler at 88.5 mph hit the internet this winter, the baseball world noticed.
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Cody Stavenhagen,
New York Times,
19 June 2025
The green folds of cliffs chanted our imagined names, caught winds heaving
an ocean of clouds that piled like seawrack
muffling the mill’s whistle, windrows of rain
gathered upon the mountain’s emerald stacks,
the black crown of the day’s celebration.
Every new headline—whether a cease-fire whisper or another drone strike—moves Brent and insurance quotes long before drilling rigs or pipelines can respond.
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Guney Yildiz,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
Jane spoke barely above a whisper to an attentive jury throughout her afternoon testimony.
Pulmonic stenosis is a congenital heart defect where the flow of blood from the heart to the lungs is obstructed, and a grade VI murmur is the most intense type of heart murmur, typically indicating a significant abnormality.
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Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 June 2025
As a child, the fighter was actually ordered by doctors not to play sports because of a heart murmur.
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