How to Use breathless in a Sentence

breathless

adjective
  • He drove at a breathless pace.
  • She describes the scene in breathless prose.
  • I watched them in breathless wonder.
  • They were breathless with anticipation.
  • Her voice went breathless again.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • There’s a breathless mood in the air that quivers and quakes at the protests to come.
    — Sara Stridsberg september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • There’s no guard rail on the footpath and the breathless climb back up is a knee-buster.
    — Keli Dailey, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2018
  • Your main goal for those days should be to work up a sweat and get a little bit breathless.
    — SELF, 31 Dec. 2018
  • There was always this breathless pace of trying to keep up with the news.
    — Megh Wright, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2021
  • Sunset gazing from one of its slopes can leave you breathless.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Then a coach came bursting through the doors breathless, with an update.
    — Ben Baskin, SI.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Damn opens with a handful of breathless tracks full of pent up confidence and ideas.
    — Matt Miller, Esquire, 14 Apr. 2017
  • There has been a lot of breathless reporting out there that has turned out not to be correct.
    — Fox News, 26 July 2018
  • At six or so minutes, the attraction is breathless, but brief.
    — Matt Cabral, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 May 2018
  • But there are a bunch of key caveats here that are missing from some of the more breathless coverage.
    — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 17 Aug. 2018
  • Krantz spun ornate, breathless tales with only-in-your-dreams endings.
    — Nora Krug, chicagotribune.com, 24 June 2019
  • There was a breathless pace to the shows in various parts of London.
    — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Almost four and a half hours later, the couple woke up to a breathless little boy.
    — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The world is on the brink of a recession, if all the breathless headlines are to be believed.
    — Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Their breathless chatter about the previous month of shows rose to the high ceilings.
    — Ian Malone, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2019
  • There have been no breathless interviews about wedding plans or a tour hiatus.
    — Gemma Allen, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The tour is fit for all ages and abilities, and will leave you breathless without being out of breath.
    — Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2018
  • The final episode of The Rain’s first season is a breathless, wild time.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 8 May 2018
  • Gorka’s breathless krakenization of the moment hyped that fact for those who might have missed it.
    — Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 24 July 2019
  • The first words will leave you breathless and, perhaps, sad that in S-Town, there will come an end.
    — Laura Jane Standley, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Quite how that ended up as the only goal of a breathless occasion is a mystery.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • But the breathless climb at Porter Square is a true challenge, reserved for the fiercest few.
    — Lauren Fox, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
  • In a breathless, back-and-forth encounter, Spain scored three times and fought back from two first-half deficits to take the lead.
    — Jonathan Clegg, WSJ, 15 June 2018
  • People were breathless last year over a plot to compromise a soup course at a dinner party.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Some of the more breathless estimates bandied about in the last weeks range up into seven figures.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

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