wheeze
Example Sentences
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Her condition has become more manageable, but the 27-year-old said it’s still scary when her chest tightens and she starts to wheeze.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026
He makes bleak comedies about strivers with shiv-like gags that make you wheeze in pain.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025
Alesya’s dog really does wheeze when it walks.
From BBC • Aug. 3, 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
Not even the car’s characteristic wheeze that I’d come to know well.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.