adverb
definition
In a breathless manner, usually due to excitement, exertion, etc.
Examples of breathlessly in a Sentence
She waited breathlessly for his next move.
Insides shaky again, Deidre waited breathlessly, tears on her face.
She stared at the kitchen doorway, waiting breathlessly for the person to appear.
She beat a hasty retreat down the hallway, and paused breathlessly in the middle of her bedroom.
These elderly patrons paid their bills, didn't trash their rooms and, to a person, were breathlessly enthralled with the mountains, weather, scenery, and everything else about the beautiful mountain town of Ouray, Colorado.
Despite the piercing gaze she'd never quite gotten used to, she stepped past Jetr and looked up at her mate, taking him in breathlessly once again.
Kutuzov and the Austrian general were talking in low voices and Kutuzov smiled slightly as treading heavily he stepped down from the carriage just as if those two thousand men breathlessly gazing at him and the regimental commander did not exist.
Prince Andrew was watching these men abashed by the Emperor's presence, and the women who were breathlessly longing to be asked to dance.
At the last post station before Otradnoe he gave the driver a three-ruble tip, and on arriving he ran breathlessly, like a boy, up the steps of his home.
She waited breathlessly, straining to hear the least noise.
Pull up, I tell you! he cried in a piercing voice, and again shouted something breathlessly with emphatic intonations and gestures.
In that moment the storm was forgotten as she waited breathlessly for his lips to touch hers.
Did you see that? she asked breathlessly.
The fans listened to everything breathlessly.
Grabbing the receiver, she answered breathlessly.
My longing grows for you grows fierce, Breathlessly, I await you.
This really could be the genesis of the fat mother-in-law joke, " one of the team breathlessly asserted.
This is a dark, but hopeful tale that will leave you breathlessly turning the pages until you reach the suspenseful climax.
Soap opera fans and others who enjoy daytime television breathlessly awaiting the announcement of the Daytime Emmy winners typically find out the results during the Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony, held each year during the summer.