wheezy
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Testing the human animal’s tolerance for plaintive fiddles, wheezy bagpipes, Peter Coyote and the whispery recitations of diary entries, “The American Revolution” is the most Ken Burns-y of Ken Burns series.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
While perfectly decent, “A Complete Unknown” is the kind of routine rock biopic that’s begun to sound as wheezy as a junk-shop accordion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025
High, thin and wheezy, his utterances make him sound as if his lungs have never gotten enough air.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
Caroline says she found it "really difficult" to coordinate her breathing and the aerosol inhaler, particularly when she was feeling wheezy.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2022
She hears the wheezy, wine-scented voice of old Dr. Geffard: Queens might have danced all night wearing it.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
All the years I've been knowed to the police," answered Mr. Moon, slower and wheezier as he went on, "I've allus give 'em all the information I could, an' that's a fact.
From The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Morrison, Arthur
His blowing of the ram's horn got wheezier every year.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel
“Robin,” said old Mrs Willis from her bed, in the wheeziest of voices.
From My Doggie and I by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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