wheeze
verb (used without object)
to breathe with difficulty and with a whistling sound.
Example Sentences
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She gets out her stethoscope: “A little bit of wheeziness, maybe.”
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2020
I had noticed a shortness of breath and a wheeziness in previous summers, and had felt my heart pounding pretty hard; but that summer I noticed these things acutely.
From The Fun of Getting Thin How to Be Happy and Reduce the Waist Line by Samuel G. (Samuel George) Blythe
It was a mournful instrument, reduced to discordant wheeziness by five-finger exercises, but the touch of the Swiss could still evoke from it some kind of harmony.
From The Unclassed by George Gissing
Dan waited for him to invoke deity with the asthmatic wheeziness to which mirth reduced his vocal apparatus.
From A Hoosier Chronicle by F. C. (Frederick Coffay) Yohn
