stertorous
Example Sentences
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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
A cheap space heater is "a wattage hog with a stertorous fan and a grinning orange mouth."
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
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
It was certainly odd that whenever she got into that lethargic state, with the stertorous breathing, she put the flowers from her; but that when she waked she clutched them close.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
