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.
• The big feelings at the hook will leave you breathless.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 6 July 2018
• 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
• The final episode of The Rain’s first season is a breathless, wild time.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 8 May 2018
• But the breathless climb at Porter Square is a true challenge, reserved for the fiercest few.
  — Lauren Fox, BostonGlobe.com, 10 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There was a breathless pace to the shows in various parts of London.
  — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019
• Then a coach came bursting through the doors breathless, with an update.
  — Ben Baskin, SI.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• At the end of the trail, let Jacob Ladder’s 180-step ascent leave you breathless.
  — Jennifer Adler, National Geographic, 27 June 2019
• 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
• Their breathless chatter about the previous month of shows rose to the high ceilings.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2019
• Damn opens with a handful of breathless tracks full of pent up confidence and ideas.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 14 Apr. 2017
• While this first part of the narrative tells a breathless tale of a woman’s rise, the story slows as Bloom turns to Burns’ fall.
  — Louis P. Masur, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2018
• There has been a lot of breathless reporting out there that has turned out not to be correct.
  — Fox News, 26 July 2018
• The seesawing of emotions during the lead changes (cheer!) and the wrecks (silence), leaves me breathless by Lap 180.
  — Lori Welge Fulk, Indianapolis Star, 20 May 2018
• Sunset gazing from one of its slopes can leave you breathless.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Aug. 2019
• The tour is fit for all ages and abilities, and will leave you breathless without being out of breath.
  — Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2018
• Paris, France Millions of breathless words have been written about French style.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Sep. 2018
• The Haydn held to what felt like the evening’s underlying modus operandi: Leave them breathless.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 6 Dec. 2019
• Last week, Riverdale left us breathless and worried about Jughead even making it to the last episode of season 2.
  — refinery29.com, 17 May 2018
• Both sides pushed for a winner, but a draw was a fair result in an intense and breathless encounter in Greece.
  — SI.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• Such is the initial hint of a closeness, between mother and son, that will acquire the breathless intensity of a secret.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2022
• His awards and accolades, the scope of his repertoire, his explosive playing — all these have elicited breathless superlatives from novices and experts alike.
  — Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024