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chesty

[ches-tee] / ˈtʃɛs ti /


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Most chesty coughs generally settle after a few weeks without needing antibiotics, but if it lingers beyond three weeks, Prof Smith urges people to go to their GP.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025

With that, Courtois bounded up all chesty like some pharaoh of the goalmouth, and his teammates surrounded him with admiration and gratitude.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2022

“We’d just go around and crash people’s weddings,” McBryde says with a chesty laugh.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2022

Fisher’s chesty defense of the program, and the victory against the Tide last season, has bought him a lot of credibility despite overall meh results for the coach who started the 10-year contract craze.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2022

A pregnant young woman sat up and held her chest and began to cough, unending chesty coughing that was painful to hear.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Even so, the Yankees walloped his Red Sox two for one, and pulled into Sarasota last week chestier than ever.

From Time Magazine Archive

Seizing his scissors, Cardin fashioned another, chestier paper jacket, put it on the evening jet from Paris to Nice, whence it was whisked by helicopter to Janis mere moments before the performance.

From Time Magazine Archive


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