Gasped is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Gasped meaning
simple past and past participle of gasp
Using Gasped
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of gasp
- In the example corpus, gasped often appears in combinations such as: gasped and, gasped when, audience gasped.
Context around Gasped
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gasped
- In this selection, "gasped" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, celebrity, players, audience and audibly stand out and add context to how "gasped" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a celebrity gasped for air and and once gasped so loud. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gasped" sits close to words such as abenaki, abstracted and addendum, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gasped
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The audience gasped audibly at the difference. (7 words)
People gasped and cheered and pulled out their phones. (9 words)
When she saw him, she gasped and covered her face. (10 words)
Congregants of the Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley in western Sydney gasped and erupted into applause on Sunday evening as the Bishop returned to the pulpit to preach again following the alleged terror attack on him two weeks ago. (41 words)
The judge said: "You punched her with such force that the injury to her eye was so obviously serious that even you gasped and you began apologising straight away for what you did. (33 words)
I laughed hard, cried 'til my eyes ached, and once gasped so loud that I heard it echo across a theater struck silent by a moment both shocking and tender. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
Paul Burrell of I’m A Celebrity gasped for air as tonight’s episode began with an incredibly gruesome trial.
Some of the players gasped when they first saw the Vidéotron Centre in February.
The audience gasped audibly at the difference.
When asked if they wanted to count to $90 million, the students gasped but didn’t hesitate to share their ideas about what they wanted at their new school.
When I was got to the last few pages of the script, I audibly gasped.
When she saw him, she gasped and covered her face.
As Verstappen and Norris’s teammate Oscar Piastri, who finished third, gasped at a lucky escape, Norris acknowledged the moment.
But the nation gasped when Le Pen, a Holocaust denier, reached a runoff in the 2002 presidential election against the incumbent, Jacques Chirac.
Congregants of the Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley in western Sydney gasped and erupted into applause on Sunday evening as the Bishop returned to the pulpit to preach again following the alleged terror attack on him two weeks ago.
He landed several more strikes and then let out a loud yell as Heyman gasped in the corner.
I gasped at this, picturing the slivers of gray on his gleaming head.
I laughed hard, cried 'til my eyes ached, and once gasped so loud that I heard it echo across a theater struck silent by a moment both shocking and tender.
People gasped and cheered and pulled out their phones.
Playing in fidelity mode on PS5, which features native 4K performance, I gasped at the opening shot of Joel’s weathered hands on his guitar.
She gasped while discussing how someone she once loved could betray her trust so deeply.
The judge said: "You punched her with such force that the injury to her eye was so obviously serious that even you gasped and you began apologising straight away for what you did.
They gasped during testimony that Mr. Hernández had ordered his police chief to assassinate rivals.
We're not completely being hyperbolic here; I literally gasped when watching one of the clips available on the "Sora First Impressions" page.
When I gasped that I couldn’t run much further, she’d push me to a marker some hundred metres ahead where we could take a walking break.
A couple days later, she woke him up at 3 a.m. “I cannot breathe,” she gasped.
Common combinations with gasped
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: