wheeze

Like the sound of a false leg, upon which every step becomes a little wheeze.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025

After 28 days, respiratory symptoms of cough, wheeze, breathlessness and sputum were found to be better with benralizumab.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 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

“This repertoire — with its contrapuntal extravaganzas, its antiphonal balances, its espousal of instruments that chuff and wheeze and speak directly to a microphone — was made for stereo,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

In the dining room, a grandly dressed woman sat at the head of the table and laughed until she began to wheeze.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

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

A deep, deep tone rises as from the roots and whistles and wheezes as if on its way to the leaves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2022

When the lights go out, the 60-year-old asthmatic douses himself with water and wheezes in the dark, barely able to breathe.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2021

Mr. Black wheezes to the front of the room as the bell rings and asks if anyone has questions about the project.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven

Lying in a bed there, he wheezed in pain from his wound as he spoke.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

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

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

At Detroit Country Day School, the football team wheezed its way up a steep slope known simply as “The Hill” on the backside of the leafy campus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2022

The air wheezed through his crooked teeth as he approached.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

"More serious but less common symptoms include wheezing, chest pains or severe cough. If you think you are having a medical emergency, seek immediate medical assistance."

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

"She is wheezing," Markos tells the nurse in the video, cradling the poorly chicken with a worried expression on his face.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

Smoke exposure during the fires also took a toll: 40% reported worsening respiratory symptoms, including coughing, shortness of breath and wheezing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

It’s like the quarterback and homecoming queen losing a popularity contest to a wheezing weirdo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

She and Slopper ran up and down the hall a few times before Slopper, wheezing and holding his rounded side, huffed, “All right, enough, jeez. Let’s lay down a bit.”

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline