wheeze
Example Sentences
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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
Preschool asthma/recurrent wheeze is a leading cause of hospital admissions in children and results in poor lung function which persists for decades.
From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 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
Breathing is tricky too; I stop trying to be quiet,: and let air wheeze in and out of my lungs.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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