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Example sentences for: gasp

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But the only way the public has of relating to these items is to gasp at them and applaud them, swoon over them and deplore them, laugh at them and compare them--and it's not even the clothes that evoke these responses, it's their likenesses transmitted by the media.
Barbara Boxer reacted with an audible gasp.
Is it the last gasp of a former culture that wants to hold back the new one?
After years of opposition on social matters, Berliners solidly supported what proved to be the Hohenzollerns’ last military gasp — World War I. At the start of the hostilities in August 1914, people gathered in thousands to cheer the Kaiser at the royal palace.
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.