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# breathlessly

«breathlessly» in Mova's school dictionary: **in a way that shows you are out of breath, panting after…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (no other forms)

### meaning for a pupil

Breathlessly means in a way that shows you are out of breath, panting after running or after a shock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breathlessly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a messenger or a runner arrives with news, gasping and out of breath

### examples

- "Hem! hem!" said the clerk breathlessly, and he sat down on a bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breathlessly/#x1)
- The boy ran home, crying breathlessly, "Mother, the farmers are close!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breathlessly/#x2)
- She climbed the hill and arrived breathlessly at the top. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breathlessly/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «breathlessly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breathlessly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.