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wheeze

[hweez, weez] / ʰwiz, wiz /


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And next stop is the Old Firm game at Ibrox, which both clubs pant and wheeze towards.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2025

He makes bleak comedies about strivers with shiv-like gags that make you wheeze in pain.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 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

Mango still has the wheeze, but I still have Mango.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

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

Guitars flutter, an accordion wheezes and a singer unwinds the triumphant tale of Fernando Ochoa Jauregui, a Modesto-area builder of food trucks and trailers.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 23, 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

I named him Mango because the sounds of his purrs and his wheezes and his meows are all various shades of yellow-orange, like a mango in different seasons.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

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

A neighborhood resident wore a respirator inside his apartment and still wheezed for an hour with asthma.

From Seattle Times Sep. 25, 2020

The pipe organ wheezed out the opening notes of a familiar tune.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

It said vaping had an association with problems including wheezing and couching, poor oral and dental health, poor sleep, mental health problems and eye symptoms.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

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

If inhaled at high levels, fumes can aggravate a person’s lungs, causing coughing, wheezing and chest tightness.

From Los Angeles Times May 25, 2026

At five months old this is Oscar's first winter and his first trip to A&E. His mum brought him in because he was wheezing and struggling to breathe.

From BBC Dec. 10, 2025

I just pulled myself up, drew deep wheezing breaths, whispered, “Thank you, God,” and continued running faster than I ever knew I could.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals




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