Adjective, : wheezy breathing. From Dictionary.com.
Coming soon: a 'wheezy' pill that makes big bellies disappear. From Wordnik.com. [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference
The old detachment clock struck nine wheezy notes. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
He was speaking in a loud dictatorial wheezy voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
"Come here, Rousselet; are you wheezy or foundered?". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Something like a wheezy sigh penetrated the crackle. From Wordnik.com. [Warhorse]
The voice was wheezy, the question ending in a cough. From Wordnik.com. [Till the Butchers Cut Him Down]
"Not very well -- not very well," said a wheezy voice. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
Patti sing "Home, Sweet Home" through a wheezy gramophone?. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Wales Senior] Reference
That cut 21 days off of each kid's annual total of wheezy days. From Wordnik.com. [How Tackling Allergies Can Ease Asthma Suffering] Reference
She turned her face away and her breathing grew wheezy and wet. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
My friend suspects they are there for the wheezy air conditioning. From Wordnik.com. [The Next Frontier Could Be in Iraq] Reference
"My subject is History of Magic," he said in his dry, wheezy voice. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]
His belly cramped, his chest felt heavy, and his breathing got wheezy. From Wordnik.com. [Zombie Lover]
I have mild asthma of the coughing variety as opposed to the wheezy kind. From Wordnik.com. [scorpi07 Diary Entry] Reference
“Have ye any news?” asked the high-pitched wheezy voice of a very old man. From Wordnik.com. [When the Sleeper Wakes] Reference
“Of course, of course,” said Doge; he had a rather high-pitched, wheezy voice. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]
Then at the band, the wheezy rattle of whose performance was certainly going faster. From Wordnik.com. [Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells] Reference
It will force him to stop leaning on wheezy old devices like single-sentence paragraphs. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Barol: Be a basketball columnist! It's easy!] Reference
A cadaverous horse, knee-sprung and wheezy, dragged the van at the gait of a caterpillar. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Dead at one o'clock Patrizio came for the cafeteria table in his wheezy World War II van. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
Tillie's old, fat, wheezy mother works on our floor — maybe Tillie really was born there. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
I knew if he got there first he'd pick out the best harp and leave me a wheezy mouth organ. From Wordnik.com. [Sunny Slopes] Reference
All day long he worked alongside Gustave, whose rants and wheezy sighs filled him with pity. From Wordnik.com. [Eclipse] Reference
All day long he worked alongside Gustave, whose rants and wheezy sighs filled him with pity. From Wordnik.com. [Eclipse] Reference
Sixteenth, was placed on the throne of France -- an old, fat, wheezy man of no particular ability. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference
We've got more sickly, wheezy kids with asthma and horrific allergies these days than ever before. From Wordnik.com. [idiot-milk Diary Entry] Reference
He's so rumply and wheezy at first that he doesn't seem to have a grip on his character as the failed son. From Wordnik.com. [Flying High] Reference
No-one had spoken since his staccato splutterings, the horrifying facts delivered in wheezy, one-word issues. From Wordnik.com. [Boiling a Frog]
Hope was busy with her lessons and Faith sat listlessly in front of the wheezy organ, idly playing snatches of melody. From Wordnik.com. [At the Little Brown House] Reference
Taku lay between her feet with his chest rising and falling, making that wheezy noise that sounded so much like my name. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of a Geisha]
He nodded toward that attractive circle of animals as it went around and around to the accompaniment of the wheezy organ. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Rose of Mifflin] Reference
You know store Santas love to give, but they would rather not get the flu in return from runny-nosed, sneezy, wheezy kids. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2009] Reference
With worn-out rails, scant supply of carriage-material, and wheezy engines, they performed herculean labor throughout the war. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886.] Reference
Mameha only adjusted her sleeves while the rest of us stood so quietly that the only sound was Mr. Arashino's wheezy breathing. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of a Geisha]
Carol sat at the wheezy organ, painfully pounding out the rhythmic notes, -- no musician she, but willing to do anything in a pinch. From Wordnik.com. [Sunny Slopes] Reference
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