stertorous

Example Sentences

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Orr was breathing rhythmically with a noise that was stertorous and repulsive.

From Literature

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

The unnerving sound of human breathing, at times gasping and stertorous, threads through it, before becoming the work's own death rattle as the music ebbs away.

From The Guardian

The Rolls-Royce gave a faintly stertorous sigh and began to move.

From Project Gutenberg

But presently there fell upon the ears of the conspirators, rendered almost incredulous by joy, an unmistakable and stertorous sound, as of some heavy and asthmatic body taking in air through unaccustomed channels.

From Project Gutenberg