wheeze
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If this week shows anything, though, this wheeze, like all such wheezes, has finally sown the seeds of its own obsolescence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
The tram cars rattle and wheeze, having not been updated in years.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2024
But three days into a string of seven-hour rehearsals, her voice collapsed, the high notes so long her hallmark dissolving into a pitchy wheeze.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
Preschool asthma/recurrent wheeze is a leading cause of hospital admissions in children and results in poor lung function which persists for decades.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2024
Seth’s cough had become worse, and after an afternoon smoking fish he’d started to wheeze and spit out green phlegm, but the master did nothing about it.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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Such wheezes aren’t the most salient feature of the screenplay, though.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
They communicate through grunts, bellows and wheezes, a form of vocalization that plays a crucial role in the dynamics of the group.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2024
Whatever cunning wheezes No 10 conjures up, the hole the Conservatives need to climb out of is very deep.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2023
Two and a half years after her infection, Rodríguez can accomplish most daily activities, but she becomes breathless and wheezes when she carries her toddler daughter or does chores such as mopping the floor.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
It created a cacophony of hacking coughs, bronchial rattles, asthmatic wheezes, consumptive croaks.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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Their offense has sputtered and wheezed, even as their defense has done its part to keep them in games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
But I’m the kind of person who trained for, and wheezed his way through, a cycling tour of Provence with his dad, but who almost never rode to work.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2023
Outside a CT scan room, a woman sitting on a bench wheezed as snot dribbled out of her nostrils into crumpled tissues.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
It started in mid-September with Vance, 5, who came down with RSV and wheezed so badly that his skin was pulling in and out of his ribs with every breath.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022
“No, North Koreans! The KPA are marching into Seosan,” he wheezed.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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Over a wheezing harmonica and lightly strummed guitar, the title character sets out on a journey to avenge the death of her father.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Symptoms can appear within seconds, and include swelling of the throat, wheezing, coughing and difficulty breathing.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
It's no mean feat, albeit both were a damp squib with Scotland wheezing their way to an early exit on each occasion without really landing a punch on, well, anyone.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
Some 29% of parents surveyed said their child has had wheezing or breath whistling in the past, most in the last 12 months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025
When a big black rig finally pulled over, brakes wheezing, engine rumbling, I ran for it, leaving the nasty death scenario stalled at the side of the road.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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