wheeze

Example Sentences

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He makes bleak comedies about strivers with shiv-like gags that make you wheeze in pain.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

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

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

So they wheeze along, out-of-date and sometimes counterproductive, but a necessary consequence of our evolution.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan