panting
IPA: pˈæntɪŋ
noun
- The act of one who pants.
- A surname.
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Examples of "panting" in Sentences
- Hanna lifted her head, breathing in short, panting gasps.
- For a moment he stood leaning heavily against its timbers, his breath coming in short panting sobs.
- Jack dropped to a walk, and the two girls, panting from the hard run, were not slow to follow his example.
- The sunshine was at first dazzling in its brightness, and he paused and rested, for he was panting from the exertion.
- In other cases panting is caused, i.e. the mechanism most often seen in the dog under natural conditions, when it is hot.
- Because they're not following you in panting desperation for your next morsel of linguistic loveliness, they're following you because they want more followers themselves.
- In the midst of pelting rain, which half-blinded him, swinging from side to side like a rapid and erratic pendulum, his torn hands paining him severely and his lungs panting from his exertions and panting from the very air which the wind sometimes blew into his mouth with strangling force, he finally arrived at the empty car.
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