wheeze

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

The tram cars rattle and wheeze, having not been updated in years.

From BBC • Oct. 1, 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

The inhalations and exhalations of twelve people made a soft, sighing wheeze in the otherwise soundless room.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood