BREATHLESSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breathlessly mean? 

• BREATHLESSLY (adverb)
  The adverb BREATHLESSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a breathless manner

  Familiarity information: BREATHLESSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREATHLESSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a breathless manner

Context example:

she spoke breathlessly

Pertainym:

breathless (not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty)

 Context examples 

‘Come! come!’ she cried breathlessly. ‘They will be here in a moment.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meg, Beth, and Amy were sitting together, late in the afternoon, when Jo burst into the room, looking excited and demanding breathlessly, "Has anyone taken my book?"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It seemed a little uncanny to me, and I listened to her breathlessly.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

So he issued his commands, which I breathlessly obeyed, till, all of a sudden, he cried, “Now, my hearty, luff!”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"What did you do?" Ruth demanded breathlessly, listening, like any Desdemona, appalled and fascinated.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

So they stood in a quiver of eagerness and expectation, whilst that huge multitude hung so silently and breathlessly upon every motion that they might have believed themselves to be alone, man to man, in the centre of some primeval solitude.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holding on to the banisters, she put him gently away, saying breathlessly, Oh, don't!

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Whilst we were talking one came running and breathlessly gasped out that the body of Skinsky had been found inside the wall of the churchyard of St. Peter, and that the throat had been torn open as if by some wild animal.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

How still the room was as they listened breathlessly, how strangely the day darkened outside, and how suddenly the whole world seemed to change, as the girls gathered about their mother, feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

All the time I had been breathlessly watching Jonathan I had, with the tail of my eye, seen him pressing desperately forward, and had seen the knives of the gypsies flash as he won a way through them, and they cut at him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)