Example Sentences

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The Washington Post’s Ann Hornaday wrote that Bale inhabited Cheney “down to his distinctive, sideways grimace and wheezily stentorian inhalations.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2019

He laughs wheezily – many of his sentences end this way, in a warm, chest-deep rasp.

From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2014

But there is also a lightness of touch to his wheezily conversational delivery, which is punctuated by small shrieks of laughter.

From The Guardian • Nov. 22, 2010

Its tone, they say, is too wheezily domineering for accompaniment and too monotonous for anything else.

From Time Magazine Archive

Slowly and wheezily it was climbing the slope.

From The Poison Belt by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir