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How to use out of breath in a sentence

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So, needless to say, just about everyone was plumb out of breath when they stopped a hundred yards from their target.
When I flopped into my seat and pulled the door shut I was sobbing from the ordeal, out of breath, very cold, and wet right through.
Too soon, however, he was out of breath, lungs and muscles burning from exertion.
After I ran out of breath, I sat down on the swing, and swung slowly as Alex sat on the sand and made sandcastles.
He was out of breath and frantic at the time, and I assumed it was a prank call.
She was left so out of breath by the journey on foot that even 20 hours later she was still gasping for air.
We would run to him, sweaty and out of breath, and he would embrace us both, and tell me how putridly I stunk of perspiration.
Once the water was gurgling through the machine, Clara collapsed into a chair at the table out of breath and limp from the effort.
Intonation, a command of decrescendo and true unison, and just plain running out of breath become the technical challenges singers must meet.
I didn't care, and felt the urge to swear again but was too out of breath to do more than wheeze and clutch at the stitch in my side.
Almost out of breath and with a painful stitch in my side, I forced myself into motion once again.
The teachers jogged off-court, many of them out of breath, panting, or clutching stitches at their sides.
The boy stopped out of breath as he rested his hands on his knees and took in a few deep breaths.
Ayden arrived at the hospital out of breath with water streaming down his jacket.
We were out of breath, underdressed and famished, with at least two hours to kill before our key-bearing neighbours would be home.
Fifteen minutes later, he was already holding court with a crowd of reporters, fielding questions without being out of breath.
He waited until she was out of breath and the collar of her shirt was vinaceous with blood, and politely offered help.
Leanne attempted running down the hallway but found she was out of breath easily, so she settled on walking her fastest pace.
The waitress hustled back nearly out of breath and placed a large white mug on their table.
When Meg reached the Movement classroom, she was out of breath, blinking, and clutching a stitch at her side.
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He tore the obstructing handkerchief from his mouth and made for the open door, capless and 177 out of breath.
There was not a breath of wind, even to leeward, for the bise had blown itself out of breath.
And up I flew to my chamber, and locked myself in, trembling and out of breath.
Then I made a sprint for my funk hole at record speed, arriving quite out of breath after covering about three-quarters of a mile.
You might as well expect a groceryman to be out of groceries as a bellows to be out of breath.
Scarcely had they reached the opposite bank when lox appeared on the scene, very angry and out of breath.
Jack Snipe came tumbling after in a hurry, with a stranger called the whimbrel and a Puffin out of breath.
Bucket for a little private confabulation, tells his tale satisfactorily, though out of breath.
He had a paper-bag under each arm and a pottle of strawberries in one hand, and was out of breath.
He now sat down again very much out of breath, gasping at his pipe as if it contained a supply of that necessary, without which he must perish.
He was bruised, shaken, pale as death, and out of breath when he got up.
I took the little workwoman in my arms, and kissed her till I was fairly out of breath and could kiss no longer.
It is harder to be long-suffering when one is out of breath.
Mr. muzzy was much fatigued and out of breath with the walk.
Clara Caverly was in Broadway when Honor O'Flagherty arrived with me, out of breath, in consequence of the shortness of her legs, and the necessity of making up for lost time.
On the 12th of August, 1861, at the hour of the close of mass, a guide arrived out of breath at the mairie of Chamonix, and bearing on his shoulders a very lugubrious burden.
So, grasping the rough protuberances of the rock, he tugged and toiled amain, and got himself quite out of breath, without being able to stir the heavy stone.
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