Example Sentences

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Two matches in and the champions are wheezing.

From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2015

Bamberger and Oswald’s message is clear: The canaries of the gas patch are wheezing and keeling over.

From Slate • Sep. 15, 2014

Time for a Debt Haircut Ireland is struggling to cover its bank debt and U.S. homeowners are wheezing, too.

From BusinessWeek • Sep. 30, 2010

Unfilled orders, which bulged at $5 billion in early 1960, are wheezing along at $3 billion.

From Time Magazine Archive

There’s a young woman with a scarf wrapped around her head leaning against her oxygen tank; others are wheezing terribly; some are disfigured or badly burned.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera