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The pyrotechnics had some innovations: spirochete shapes that lingered dramatically in the night sky, and glowing rockets that growled asthmatically, like an airborne Darth Vader.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wheezing asthmatically, the Maracaibo put out to sea.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ramshackle trucks, coughing asthmatically, clambered on over China's battered, tortuous highways.

From Time Magazine Archive

Charley, always a dog for water, panted asthmatically, jarring his whole body with the effort, and a good eight inches of his tongue hung out flat as a leaf and dripping.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

As he proceeded to chuckle asthmatically over the fantastic improbability of this suggestion, the elderly matron with marked irritation called him sharply to order.

From Too Old for Dolls A Novel by Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)