(v. i.) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
(v. i.) Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
(v. i.) To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart.
(v. i.) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
(v. t.) To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.
(v. t.) To long for; to be eager after.
(n.) A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
(n.) A violent palpitation of the heart.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the Mat yoga pant by lulelemon.
(2) If the pants did become available in clinics, Dukelow said costs might be around a few hundred dollars (around £125) for the basic equipment plus a few tens of dollars per month for the disposable electrodes.
(3) In addition, we have also validated the use of Vtgpant at a low panting frequency in these subjects.
(4) When water was offered more than 15 min after the end of a period of heating, after panting had ceased, drinking occurred only if the water loss exceeded 50-70 g, about 0-6% of the body water.
(5) Amphibolurus muricatus, a species restricted to the more mesic regions of Australia, does not show any change of panting threshold with progressive dehydration.
(6) Pant had to buy extra hard drives to serve as backup copies of the top-secret files.
(7) The anti-ball crushing pants, or ABC pants, for short, have been all the rage since they were introduced at the end of last year, Lululemon says.
(8) To dilate any pulmonary arteriovenous anastomoses, the birds were warmed to induce panting, killed with chloroform, or injected intravenously with papavarine.
(9) Studies in respiratory physiology and acid-base balance of panting birds exposed to high Tas show that flying as well as nonflying birds can use the respiratory system simultaneously for gas exchange and evaporative cooling.
(10) We suggest that specializations of the soft palate and epiglottis in dogs for thermal panting appear to restrict the formation of an adequate oropharyngeal seal during feeding.
(11) His children will get used to a father who wears pants, without a dagger, and who does not pick out their nits in public.
(12) [Parkinson's] makes me squirm and it makes my pants ride up so my socks are showing and my shoes fall off and I can't get the food up to my mouth when I want to."
(13) I imagined him sitting in the car panting at my shoulder all the way and then yipping with excitement when we pulled into the layby.
(14) Intraperitoneal injections of a dopamine antagonist, haloperidol, induced a marked hypothermia, due to a downward shift of the threshold central temperature for induction of cold thermogenesis, panting and vasodilation.
(15) Sally sent us off on the Tiny Tim Trail, a sloping, twisting, turning snowshoe path that had me panting and out of breath in less than five minutes.
(16) She beats Sanders and Kasich and crushes Cruz and Trump, who has the biggest “ pants on fire ” rating and has told whoppers about basic economics that are embarrassing for anyone aiming to be president.
(17) hour)(-1) as air temperature was increased from 10 degrees to 50 degrees C. Evaporation of the fluid from the paired glands could account for between 19 and 36 percent of the increase in respiratory evaporation associated with thermal panting.
(18) blocked panting and attenuated the decrease in Tb caused by i.c.v.
(19) During exercise, panting usually occurred in short regular bursts of about 10 sec duration, whereas during both mild and severe heat stress it occurred in bursts of irregular but usually longer duration.
(20) What a different kind of party it would be if the GOP could expand the not-caring-about-pants sphere beyond Mark Sanford!
Sigh
Definition:
(v. i.) To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like.
(v. i.) Hence, to lament; to grieve.
(v. i.) To make a sound like sighing.
(v. t.) To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
(v. t.) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
(v. t.) To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
(v. i.) A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.
(v. i.) Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan/ent.
Example Sentences:
(1) "But this is not all Bulgarians and gives a totally wrong picture of what the country is about," she sighed.
(2) Whoever is Tory leader then may breathe a sigh of relief.
(3) Sighs provide an opportunity to study the interaction and the maturation of the autonomic nervous system.
(4) An adviser to the Sultan of Aïr, the town’s ceremonial leader , sighs.
(5) To all the college grads out there, sighing over their student loan payments, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has a message: it was all worth it.
(6) | Hugh Muir Read more Wherever Labour people gather to discuss how to break out of the vice tightening around the party, answers fail amid sighs of utter despair.
(7) However, the over-riding view is that with Global's plan to buy GMG Radio outright all but thwarted, senior executives at German-owned Bauer will be breathing a sigh of relief.
(8) "I wanna rearrange that bit," he sighs, "because I feel I'm just doing what's expected of an R&B artist to take your shirt off.
(9) I think it should be a huge sigh of relief for EADS shareholders."
(10) "It's hard," sighed Royal, asked how she was faring.
(11) As for Botha, he breathed a sigh of relief that his ordeal was over.
(12) "Some even call me her pet," he sighs, raising his eyebrows in exasperation.
(13) He sighs, though whether this is out of weariness and regret, or impatience at my line of questioning, is difficult to tell.
(14) "Oh Lynn," she sighs, "you can't seriously expect me to answer that."
(15) Thus, promoter switching during the early stationary phase resulted not only in expression from SigH promoters but also in differential expression of the genes in the sigA operon.
(16) Jason Conibear, market analyst at forex specialists, Cambridge Mercantile, argues that Obama will be breathing a sigh of relief, even though US economic growth is slowing: American consumers are getting skittish again, but with the giant economy's output still creeping upwards, politicians and policymakers will find the perfect excuse to do nothing.
(17) Because this is due in part to variability in the way the information is obtained to make the various rating distinctions, the Structured Interview Guide for the HDRS (SIGH-D) was developed to standardize the manner of administration of the scale.
(18) Rumours,” Baddour sighed once more, as he returned from the platform.
(19) Clash of the sofas: BBC v ITV An age-old rivalry with plenty of previous, gone are the days where you'd sigh when you found out a match was on ITV not BBC.
(20) – but Russell happily slips in and out of voices and lines from the movie, his recollections punctuated by wistful sighs.