The second begins the process of rapid suffocation; although the lungs gasp for relief the air at 32,000 feet is simply too thin to breathe.

His lungs gasped for air and his abused muscles refused to cooperate.

Then her lungs suddenly gasped for air, filling the small space with a sound that resembled the wheeze of a rusty bellows.

Already his lung was gasping for oxygen.

"Robots..." Gregor was sitting up, his aged lungs gasping to gain breath.

His own lungs were gasping now, but he wasn't going to stop for breath.

His lungs gasped for breath, every inhalation like a knife thrust into his chest.

The captain would have asked too, except that his lungs were gasping from the climb.

'Look, get on to the police,' he said, his lungs gasping for air.

He struggled, gasped, thin air freezing his lungs, the effort torture.