suspiring

present participle of suspire

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for suspiring
Verb
  • When the audio came back on during the broadcast, the audience could be heard gasping — while cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin raised her hands to her face in shock, and Sunny Hostin pursed her lips.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Ally repeatedly asked while gasping as about a dozen of her friends chuckled nearby.
    Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Your dog starts panting and won’t settle down.
    Maria Williams, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Her husband was a bear — wild, panting, with sweat pasting his T-shirt to his chest.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • One room cracked up at a vulgar joke about a woman’s behind, while another went for an outrageous and surreal midfilm montage — but each bit was made genuinely funnier by the dozens of people gasping and wheezing over it.
    Robert Rubsam, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Through Blazy’s gaze, what looks outlandish is often revealed to be truer to itself than, for instance, the nearby tourist restaurants with candles burning down over beef bourguignon and accordions huffing in the corner.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And more than anything, more than the animosity between the programs, more than the College Football Playoff impact, more than Notre Dame puffing its chest out as USC backed down, that familiarity was the real higher power at work.
    Pete Sampson, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The president has increasingly embraced fake images and videos — some appearing to be AI-generated — to mock and taunt political rivals while also puffing up his image.
    David Ingram, NBC news, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Moonshot Museum opened in 2022 and was Pennsylvania's first space museum as well as the first in the world to focus on inspiring young people to pursue a career in the modern space industry.
    Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Professional sports are rapacious for-profit enterprises that produce wildly entertaining, sometimes violent, and sometimes inspiring athletic competition.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
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“Suspiring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suspiring. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.

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