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Meanings of blown in English
Breathing laboriously or convulsively.
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Examples for "panting"
Examples for "panting"
1
In night blackness he heard it while seeing nothing: light panting breaths.
2
In the distance, the bells continued to complain unceasingly in panting accents.
3
He stopped, getting his wind; watching the men panting and stumbling in.
4
The panting of the engine came back to us in savage blasts.
5
She spoke in panting gasps, the death-rattle sounding in her skinny throat.
1
Imagine gasping for air with every step you take, Mr Green said.
2
I heard him come in, gasping for air after the long climb.
3
It's all seems to have left the young Canelo gasping for answers.
4
The effort of gathering and releasing so much energy left me gasping.
5
He got up, unsteady, still gasping and unable to speak or hear.
1
We lose our readers' attention when paragraphs are too long-winded and wordy.
2
This set him thinking; he knew the deer had not winded him.
3
In most cases these were long-winded, pointless, and yawn-provoking attempts at writing.
4
Long-winded went to French restaurant & asked for sardines and plain bread.
5
The politicians on our screens are renowned for long winded, waffly answers.
1
The generous living of Dawson had made him pursy, almost porcine.
2
Unconsciously dull eyes sparkled and pursy lips vibrated into smiles.
3
By lavender feet clung a big, pursy, lavender-splotched, yellow body.
4
Its big, pursy body was covered with long, furry scales of the purest white imaginable.
5
A pursy grocer considers he is much above either.
1
He was out of breath; he staggered; he leaned against the wall.
2
They were out of breath; the shower passed away upon the sea.
3
The prince was always in a perspiration, and often out of breath.
4
He was out of breath and dizzy; his heart beat to suffocation.
5
She talked in a jerky way, and was always out of breath.
1
She panted a little as she spoke, like a short-winded lap-dog.
2
Here Augustus, who was a little short-winded, paused to recover breath.
3
The man's strength was prodigious, although he was puffy and short-winded.
4
Another of those short-winded, high-arched pops went up in air.
5
She sits down, short-winded, and listens to his heavy breathing.
Usage of blown in English
1
Juror five had just blown this trial right out of the water.
2
In the past I've seen him take responsibility when he's blown it.
3
Hundreds, thousands strong, our minds blown and expanded by his very presence.
4
He said a full-blown system design response in workplaces should be done.
5
The dust is blown out in a cloud high in the air.
6
It is a wonder he hasn't already been blown out to sea.
7
The first day with the new system and he'd already blown it.
8
We were already blown away and hadn't even seen our room yet.
9
Then ask your select list of people to the full blown reception.
10
It seemed a full-blown war somewhere far beyond the ken of humankind.
11
The star had just been extinguished; the lamp had been blown out.
12
SOP was to leave the area as soon as you were blown.
13
They have insulin resistance and are at risk of developing full-blown diabetes.'
14
The cloud had blown off the coast by late afternoon, it said.
15
At Ojama school last year, two blocks of four were blown away.
16
A yawning hole was blown in the very side of the submarine.
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Australia
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South Africa
Common
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