suspire

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Verb
  • For anyone who’s ever been on a ventilator, death by suffocation is a paralyzing terror and Carson wholly sells this nightmare, painfully gasping for air and gurgling horribly as his nurse call button slips out of reach.
    Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 16 May 2025
  • Art flop: When a bronze head by the master sculptor Alberto Giacometti failed to sell at Sotheby’s auction, the audience gasped.
    German Lopez, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • At the same time, there are other conditions that can present with allergy-like symptoms, and at high enough concentrations, even people without allergies will wheeze.
    Umair Irfan, Wired News, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Crappy Christmas lights blinked overhead, and a tiny pug wheezed on a rug by the register.
    Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Despite Wharton puffing his chest in a terrifying bid to control his new wife, however, Serena fights back.
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
  • That constant gnawing and sucking and puffing and chomping are all tension generators and all bring the focus back to Husk’s facial hair, the accessory that conveys how resigned the character is to his own recklessness.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 May 2025
Verb
  • By halftime, Luka was panting like an old dog in August.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2025
  • Wallen has abandoned the panting rasp of his mid-twenties, and now performs with force and depth.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 16 May 2025
Verb
  • The bear growled, huffed and clacked her teeth — making sure her message of getting away from her cubs got across.
    Benjamin Alva Polley, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2025
  • In this offbeat and surreal comedy, frustrated playwright Mark becomes addicted to huffing perfume to conjure memories from a previous Italian summer vacation.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 16 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Photo Gallery Actress Susanne Wuest was greatly inspired by the box of photos the filmmaker provided of the women who lived on the farm.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 15 May 2025
  • The ocean-facing 156-seat restaurant, which includes an eight-seat sushi bar and 12-seat pagoda bar, serves signature dishes such as black cod with iso squid pasta and A5 Wagyu steak, as well as locally inspired dishes including lobster truffle tempura and beef kushiyaki skewers.
    Pamela Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2025
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“Suspire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suspire. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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