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stertorous
adjective as in breathless
adjective as in hoarse
adjective as in raucous
adjective as in strident
Example Sentences
And then Lucy’s breathing became stertorous again, and all at once it ceased.
Orr was breathing rhythmically with a noise that was stertorous and repulsive.
It had something to do with his stertorous, slightly nasal-breathy way of speaking: a vocal tic to compare with De Niro or Brando.
The unnerving sound of human breathing, at times gasping and stertorous, threads through it, before becoming the work's own death rattle as the music ebbs away.
The Rolls-Royce gave a faintly stertorous sigh and began to move.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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