wheeze
verb (used without object)
to breathe with difficulty and with a whistling sound.
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
The Mountain-men laughed wheezily, for now the singing had died away.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare
