And when she stopped gasping for air and was able to hold them off: 'What was it?'

The pilot stopped gasping as Schofield flicked his intercom to channel 03.

Less heralded are the problems of the end stages of heart failure and lung diseases, when patients cannot stop gasping for breath.

Bardan could not pause; he pelted on, stopped gasping in the looming dark of the gate recess.

Perhaps it was because each step was no longer hard labour and I'd stopped gasping for every breath.

He finally stopped coughing and gasping.

Before she could stop gasping, footsteps thundered down the hall and fists pounded on the door.

Even when Buttercup was awake again, at dawn, with fifty-seven days to go till her marriage, she could not stop gasping.

The old man stopped gasping for air and lay back.

My mouth dropped open, then I managed to stop gasping and say, "But, baby, you can't do that!