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- adjective
hyperventilating ; relating to, or undergoing,hyperventilation
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Examples
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During that same or another similar argument, he had said, with almost hyperventilative desperation, It's all I've got, Ann. What aboutus?, she had shot back, almost screaming, exclamation points flying, and Ann not really listening, or not really caring to listen.
Envy the book 2009
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During that same or another similar argument, he had said, with almost hyperventilative desperation, It's all I've got, Ann. What about us?, she had shot back, almost screaming, exclamation points flying, and Ann.not really listening, or not really caring to listen.
Envy the book Stephen Stark 2009
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I did not know that the ersatz journalists of print and airwave were, in their usual hyperventilative way, attempting to put the whole world on tenterhooks about some alleged plot to blow up airplanes with hair gel and Game Boys.
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