Example sentences for: breathlessly

How can you use “breathlessly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As breathlessly reported in the new "Circuits" section of the New York Times , two twentysomething writers named Andrew Shapiro and David Shenk were "commiserating over lunch in Greenwich Village one day last summer" over "their problem."

  • For instance, in its second paragraph the Post tells us, breathlessly, that Clinton officials "have worked on [the rules] for years" (should we pat them on the back for that?)

  • One of James' trademark innocents, Catherine is acted upon by three titanic forces: her father, Dr. Sloper (Albert Finney), whose express desire to protect a daughter he considers ugly and witless takes the form of ruthless repression; her aunt, (Maggie Smith), who wishes to weave out of her niece's life a breathlessly melodramatic romance; and Morris Townsend (Ben Chaplin), the playboy who has squandered a modest inheritance and now seeks salvation in the form of this unloved, unlovely, and affluent young woman.

  • Kurtz somewhat breathlessly reports that Suzanne Daley, South African bureau chief of the NYT , was mortified when right in front of her, Nelson Mandela made a sexist remark about her to her boss, the Times 's Joseph Lelyveld.

  • The way Matt Damon scrawls breathlessly on a chalkboard in Good Will Hunting --that's the way De Palma makes a thriller, piling on angles, variables, fractions, exponents.


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