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  • adverb In a breathy manner.

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Examples

  • IX He leaned back and called breathily upward, "arethos, imedshud! intob coom."

    The Hour of the Gate Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • Sharon's bass and breathily intoned vocals are often the crux of a song, and sparseness and restraint always the watchwords, with even guest Johnny Marr reining himself in so his guitar sinuously entwines with the bass and synth lines on Can't Put it Down Until it Ends.

    Pajama Club: Pajama Club – review 2011

  • Smoothly steering between R&B and Eurodance, she's breathily seductive on Motivation – by contrast, guest Lil Wayne is positively anaemic – while I'm Dat Chick updates the jumpy minimalism of Destiny's Child's No, No, No.

    Kelly Rowland: Here I Am – review 2011

  • Her breathily sexy aria with Creonte (an excellent Iestyn Davies) was one of several show-stoppers.

    Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio Fiona Maddocks 2010

  • Jesse clapped his hands and hissed breathily to imitate big-auditorium applause, very convincing.

    Blues Machine Bill Roorbach 2012

  • Demolition is a gorgeously quirky melodic delight with a breathily affecting vocal that is Debbie Harry-ish in its Warholian knowingness.

    Mr Little Jeans (No 906) Paul Lester 2010

  • “This is just like Journey to the Center of the Earth,” Eliza said breathily, tingling from head to toe.

    The Book Of Spells Kate Brian 2010

  • “This is just like Journey to the Center of the Earth,” Eliza said breathily, tingling from head to toe.

    The Book Of Spells Kate Brian 2010

  • There under the pen name “Meg Merrilies,” she began publishing her breathily apostrophizing poetry—“San Francisco, city of mists and dreams!”

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • There under the pen name “Meg Merrilies,” she began publishing her breathily apostrophizing poetry—“San Francisco, city of mists and dreams!”

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

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