wheeze
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If this week shows anything, though, this wheeze, like all such wheezes, has finally sown the seeds of its own obsolescence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
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
The tram cars rattle and wheeze, having not been updated in years.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2024
I can hear Mango wheeze from across the room as I pack up my watercolors.
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
Whatever cunning wheezes No 10 conjures up, the hole the Conservatives need to climb out of is very deep.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2023
As the 2022 midterm election wheezes to an end, the start of the 2024 campaign feels both uncharted and uncannily familiar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2022
He wheezes when he speaks, like I remember.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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 Bath minister stepped behind the pulpit again, wheezed some to gain time, and then figured that they would conclude the service with “Bringing in the Sheaves.”
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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
"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
If inhaled at high levels, these fumes can aggravate a person’s lungs, causing coughing, wheezing and chest tightness.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 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
The next time I wake up it’s a few hours later, and the clacking of the furnace almost drowns out the sound of Mango’s heavy wheezing.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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