wheeze
Example Sentences
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Her condition has become more manageable, but the 27-year-old said it’s still scary when her chest tightens and she starts to wheeze.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026
Alesya’s dog really does wheeze when it walks.
From BBC • Aug. 3, 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
Not even the car’s characteristic wheeze that I’d come to know well.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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