Meaning of breath-catching | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Inspiring awe or deep admiration; impressive.
2. Extremely frightening or overwhelming.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see breath, catching.

Examples

“The theory was breath-catching, but quickly fell apart when the accountant could give no account of what Sibyl might have done with Theresa's body.”

“Donal Henahan reported that her performance of it was “breath-catching in its vocal warmth and emotional power.””

“For here was a vista that was breath-catching and inspiring, a wholly new thing come into the world.”

“To cap the feat, their leader made a breath-catching descent by what mountain men call a rappel, riding down a rope almost 400 feet.”

“I asked whether he would mind if I looked through them, and after a few minutes I found the map: it was a breath-catching moment for, as I unfolded it, I saw that it must show the deployment of a whole searchlight regiment covering the entire southern half of Belgium.”

“He was moving towards her with a purposefully predatory stride, stopping only when he was breath-catching inches away from her.”

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