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wheeze

verb as in breathe roughly, heavily

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Example Sentences

The tram cars rattle and wheeze, having not been updated in years.

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But then the messages became more sinister - calling her a "scumbag" and promising to find her "wherever she walks her wheezing dog".

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By then, the eyes of the world will be focused on the U.S., where a far different presidential campaign will be wheezing to its end.

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.

He swayed back and forth in a rocking motion and made a whistling howl, like that last, dying wheeze of a damp log in a fire.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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