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
And next stop is the Old Firm game at Ibrox, which both clubs pant and wheeze towards.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025
Like the sound of a false leg, upon which every step becomes a little wheeze.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025
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
We go up the stairs to the studio, slowly, so we won’t get out of breath: neither one of us wants to be caught out by the other in a middle-aged wheeze.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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
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
Madame Blanchard squeezes Madame Manec’s hand and wheezes and blinks her glossy eyes in pleasure.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Their offense has sputtered and wheezed, even as their defense has done its part to keep them in games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
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
Every morning, taxi vans full of commuters wheezed in from the city’s fringes.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
The lord's voice wheezed out of him, like the wind being squeezed from a pair of rotten bellows.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
It said vaping had an association with problems including wheezing and couching, poor oral and dental health, poor sleep, mental health problems and eye symptoms.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
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
It’s like the quarterback and homecoming queen losing a popularity contest to a wheezing weirdo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
At times, she feels tightness in her chest, and experiences a fit of coughing and wheezing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2025
Hearing Ma weeping and Pop wheezing, cracking his knuckles while Leda sucks her pacifier double-time and Ray holds my hand.
From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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