wheeze
verb (used without object)
to breathe with difficulty and with a whistling sound.
had wheezed
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past perfectof wheeze.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The only goal, Bent claiming to have mustered a flick to Barry Bannan's left-footed cross as it drifted over from the right flank, enlivened a match that had wheezed from the start.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2011
One is left with the impression that if by chance Mao had wheezed off, Chiang Ch'ing would have kept the Cultural Revolution going all by her termagant self.
From Time Magazine Archive
All night long the engine had wheezed, supplying erratic power for the lights by which Chinese compositors handset four tabloid-size pages of type.
From Time Magazine Archive
The singing inside the Mission had died out, and the last chords on the small organ had wheezed themselves into silence.
From The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies by Ridgwell Cullum
The engine had wheezed three times, and she hesitated to jump.
From Round the Block by John Bell Bouton
