‘They're on their last gasp or they've been decimated.’
‘But I don't want the already struggling non-corporate bookstores to give up their last gasp.’
‘I was with him at his last gasp and kissed him on the forehead.’
‘From the moment we leave our mother's body at birth to our last gasp on our deathbed, we need air every minute.’
‘The truth is, her last gasp of enthusiasm is behind her, and she's ready to admit that she'd rather be three years younger and sitting in the dark of a movie theater in a Connecticut suburb than in an orange grove overlooking the city of Rome.’
‘This is the last gasp, and last gasps have a way of imploding in a vaingloriously spectacular way, as though their protagonists knew they were going to go down - they just wanted to go down in style.’
‘This is a dispute so absurd it scarcely seems worth arguing, the last gasp of exclusionary privilege that began its death rattle in 1990.’
‘The 1950s was the last gasp for Victorian ways of life - and I know, I had to survive the Fifties!’
‘Optimism was briefly restored when he scored his dramatic last-gasp goal to take the team into yet another cliffhanger.’
‘He materialised in front of the goal in the fading moments to snatch a last - gasp leveller.’
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