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Example sentences for: gasp

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

This doesn't necessarily mean that costs will go down--the extra costs may be taken up by hiring more programmers, doing basic research, or even (gasp) in extra profits.
The police, it added, must be kept "in pace with the galloping pace of high-tech in brilliantly planned and executed operations which could transform electronic gadgetry into burglar's tools when the 20 th century is in its last gasp."
Time also asks several celebrities about the pill (Camille Paglia: "The erection is the last gasp of modern manhood."
But Chekhov, out of a childhood that one of his brothers called "crushing anguish," ranged the full field of society, and always with a delicacy that still makes the world gasp.
The Fuss Over The Fate of the Earth was the last gasp of the old New Yorker buzz machine of the William Shawn era.