"once" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It gasped once for breath that would not come, and lay very still.
- He gasped once or twice, and then tried to speak again.
- A moment later she gasped once, and her dark eyes rolled up until the whites showed.
- He gasped once, twice, before he began to breathe normally again.
- The man gasped once and died as blood drained from his brain.
- He gasped once, and fell to his knees, his head hanging forward.
- She gasped once, twice, as she tried to get control.
- He gasped once, then said, 'I want to hear the history now.'
- I gasped once for air, trying to protect myself or fight back, but it was already too late.
- And the audience gasped once, when the lone woman among the six revealed something that happened to her husband.
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