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wheeze

[hweez, weez] / ʰwiz, wiz /


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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

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

I recognized the sounds of a carnival in the distance: the arrhythmic wheeze of pipe organs, the dull roar of a crowd.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

Such wheezes aren’t the most salient feature of the screenplay, though.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 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

Guitars flutter, an accordion wheezes and a singer unwinds the triumphant tale of Fernando Ochoa Jauregui, a Modesto-area builder of food trucks and trailers.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 23, 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

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

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’ve never been that sick,” he wheezed through his thick metal door.

From Washington Post Jul. 14, 2022

Blackjack wheezed, kicking his legs against the deck.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

"More serious but less common symptoms include wheezing, chest pains or severe cough. If you think you are having a medical emergency, seek immediate medical assistance."

From BBC Jul. 15, 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

A marine who lives near the crash site told Fox News he heard a "strange whistling wheezing noise" followed by a "boom and a shake in the house".

From BBC May 22, 2025

Akira’s dad pushed himself up off the couch, wheezing from the smoke he’d breathed in escaping Morris the first time.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz




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