stertorous
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It had something to do with his stertorous, slightly nasal-breathy way of speaking: a vocal tic to compare with De Niro or Brando.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2013
Its breath is stertorous, mechanical; its tread is elephantine; its vocal chords match its tread—for this doll can talk—and bawl— and bellow.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the bunk above Seaman Ward's issued the stertorous breathing of a 250-lb. shipmate, also slumbering.
From Time Magazine Archive
A cheap space heater is "a wattage hog with a stertorous fan and a grinning orange mouth."
From Time Magazine Archive
And then Lucy’s breathing became stertorous again, and all at once it ceased.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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