breathlessly

breathless | American Dictionary

breathless
adjective
us/ˈbreθ·ləs/
breathing too fast, and therefore unable to get enough air into your lungs to be comfortable:
She was breathless with excitement.

Examples of breathless

breathless
The number of breathless people is increasing as patients with all types of cardio-respiratory disease live longer.
The breathless plot developments of the crime and courtroom drama are highly fictionalized allusions to the ponderous workings of the law.
I mean clearly you feel empathy with the patient who is breathless.
The analysis operates within a range and scope that can leave the reader breathless and occasionally frustrated.
A typical group of parasynonyms contains: sweltering and breathless; parched; burning; searing and sear; scorching, scorched, and scorcher;, and roasting, roaster.
His colour, very, very breathless and then more fidgety than normal and then, from that, not even coming upstairs which isn't him.
The unearthly purity and breathless singing tone of this instrument seemed uniquely to embody the possibility of an advanced alien voice.
I find it very distressing when you come to see someone who is breathless.
The breathless inadequacy model of bourgeois femininity has also been questioned in studies of intrepid emigrants, formidable travellers and driven philanthropists.
One cancer patient in the event did not have a coresidential carer and another was too breathless to be interviewed.
Once patients with cancer become intractably breathless they usually have a relatively short time to live, becoming breathless at rest over a shorter period of time.
Eirola, therefore, seems to accept being breathy amplified, but not being breathless amplified.
The breathy playing emphasises the 'musical' quality of the flute, unlike the breathless playing, which foregrounds the material requirements of flute playing: the indispensable act of breathing.
I am afraid he had a rather breathless beginning to his speech.
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