wheeze
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Edi Rama does not deny that there is an element of a publicity stunt to his latest wheeze.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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
One night she hears “the wheeze of weight on the stairs” of her 18th century New England Colonial and tries to dismiss it as her 8-year-old daughter sleepwalking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
I can hear Mango wheeze from across the room as I pack up my watercolors.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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
Two and a half years after her infection, Rodríguez can accomplish most daily activities, but she becomes breathless and wheezes when she carries her toddler daughter or does chores such as mopping the floor.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
A deep, deep tone rises as from the roots and whistles and wheezes as if on its way to the leaves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
Dad wheezes from his corner and hammers his chest with a fist.
From "Red Queen" by Victoria Aveyard
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
Outside a CT scan room, a woman sitting on a bench wheezed as snot dribbled out of her nostrils into crumpled tissues.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
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
“I’b gudda brig you subbody,” Patrolman Mancuso wheezed again, this time even more unconvincingly than the first.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
It’s like the quarterback and homecoming queen losing a popularity contest to a wheezing weirdo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
It's no mean feat, albeit both were a damp squib with Scotland wheezing their way to an early exit on each occasion without really landing a punch on, well, anyone.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
Some 29% of parents surveyed said their child has had wheezing or breath whistling in the past, most in the last 12 months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025
Asthma can cause wheezing, breathlessness, a tight chest and coughing.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2025
His eyes rained rivers, and long ribbons of snot dangled from his wheezing nostrils.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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