suspire

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suspire
Verb
  • Clearly thrilled, Rae gasps, then smiles wide for a selfie with them.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Lisa Warwick found her husband gasping for air at the foot of the basement stairs and knew the miracle was over.
    J. David McSwane, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • This causes children to wheeze and have all sorts of noisy breathing.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The Heat, wheezing into town after a double-overtime loss in Sacramento the night before, didn’t have Jimmy Butler and beat the Warriors by 16 points, capping a 3-3 homestand that felt more disastrous than decent considering context.
    Anthony Slater, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Place basket on top of pot and steam, covered, for 8-10 minutes, or until wrappers puff up.
    Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025
  • One of my downstairs neighbors was stunned to see her inhale from an oxygen tank one moment and puff on a cigarette the next.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • But there was a lot of panting and putting his head into his hands.
    Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2025
  • When southern Spain trembles in heat, when dogs seem to be panting their last breaths in narrow bands of shade in the white villages of Andalusia, northern Spain keeps cool.
    Stanley Stewart, airmail.news, 31 Aug. 2024
Verb
  • And of course, Dennis Hopper, huffing nitrous oxide as rapist, gang leader Frank Booth is a vision of male bestiality ripped out of a Francis Bacon painting (Lynch has acknowledged Bacon as a key influence on his work).
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Out front, Pastor Rodney Freeman and several volunteers — bundled up in thick winter coats, huffing out little clouds of breath — rush to set up the Bountiful Blessings food pantry.
    Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 14 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The World’s First Podcast originated in 2021 and inspired the podcast featured in Nobody Wants This.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2025
  • It is inspired by the extraordinary real-life story of Mathias Rust, a young West German teenager in 1987 who shocked the world by flying through Soviet air defences and landed a Cessna aeroplane right in the middle of the Red Square.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Suspire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suspire. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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