wheeze
verb (used without object)
to breathe with difficulty and with a whistling sound.
wheezingly
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a word derived from
wheeze.
Example Sentences
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The breaths of the fighters came wheezingly from their lips and the three chests were straining and heaving.
From Maggie, a Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
And, when he had wheezingly complied, they would arise under their loads, remark that it was real heartening, and hit the forward trail again.
From The Red One by Jack London
Thick layers of flannel swathed his throat, and from time to time, he coughed wheezingly, with the air of one who, having a cold, was determined to be conscientious about it.
From Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life by Alice Brown
You cannot drink the water which the pump draws wheezingly up from some deep reservoir of bad flavors.
From Casey Ryan by B. M. Bower
Mother hastened to bring him a chair into which he wheezingly subsided.
From The Road to Providence by Maria Thompson Daviess
