gasper

Example Sentences

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I gasped loudly, the lone gasper in a room of eight-odd souls.

From Washington Post • May 17, 2018

"Anybody aboard?" he bellowed as he wandered through the metal guts of the old gasper.

From Time Magazine Archive

Former jocks chose push ups or the old football squad gasper, running in place; veterans of yoga groups did yoga bends; dancers did dancers' stretches.

From Time Magazine Archive

O'Shaughnessy arose and respectfully drew him aside, offering him a "gasper".

From Snake and Sword A Novel by Wren, Percival Christopher

Here and there a man is puffing at his beloved "gasper" with the nonchalance that marks your bull-dog breed when stern work is afoot.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14 by Various