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- adjective
exhausting , causing someone to beout of breath .
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Examples
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On a stage with a lung-busting finishing climb up the fabled Col Du Galibier, he jumped on an earlier mountain and escaped alone.
Schleck Brothers Serve Cold Revenge Jason Gay 2011
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Feb. 24, 2010: After receiving savage reviews in Brisbane, the struggling diva tries to impress with "lung-busting force rather than the extravagant dexterity her voice once had," according to The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Looking back, he recalls that race as a lung-busting sprint of just under two hours.
Ironman to Get Less Exclusive Kevin Helliker 2010
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Alas, her exploits are hampered by the dreadful sound, and lung-busting rockers like Bad Influence only become recognisable when the crowd take up the choruses.
Pink 2010
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His 52nd-minute goal, at the end of a lung-busting run from midway inside the Greece half, essentially sealed the result and means he has now scored in each of the last three World Cups.
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Perhaps the biggest evidence of the dramatic change came last Saturday, when England inexplicably dropped 35 points on Australia in a dynamic display of running rugby that featured one of the most memorable tries of recent times — a lung-busting 100-yard foot race from the shadow of its own posts.
Rugby Union Runs Free Jonathan Clegg 2010
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To develop Steven's physical edge, Jean pushes him through lung-busting, muscle-fatiguing training sessions.
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It was a. 30-caliber shortfat, a light, handy little gun that was perfect for snaking in and out of a saddle scabbard, carrying on lung-busting sprints at high altitude, and weaving through the peckerpole pines at port arms.
Optical Delusions 2007
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It was a. 30-caliber shortfat, a light, handy little gun that was perfect for snaking in and out of a saddle scabbard, carrying on lung-busting sprints at high altitude, and weaving through the peckerpole pines at port arms.
Optical Delusions 2007
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They're playing a lung-busting brand of basketball masterminded by former Nuggets coach Doug Moe in the 1980s: high intensity on defense, high speed on offense.
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