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  • noun Plural form of wheeze.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wheeze.

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Examples

  • His breath came in short wheezes; a senatorial roll of adipose tissue denied a fashionable set to his upturned coat collar.

    Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen Divers 2007

  • His breath came in short wheezes; a senatorial roll of adipose tissue denied a fashionable set to his upturned coat collar.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Divers 2007

  • His mouth is half open, and his breath comes in wheezes, like he has asthma.

    It's Like This, Cat 1963

  • His breath came in short wheezes; a senatorial roll of adipose tissue denied a fashionable set to his upturned coat collar.

    The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886

  • His breath, though full of unhealthy noises such as wheezes and an occasional whistle, came at reassuringly regular intervals.

    Beacon Street Mourning Day, Dianne 2000

  • He was never happier than when closeted for an hour or so with one or two of my uncles exchanging "wheezes" (as anecdotes were oddly called in our family).

    Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955

  • He also had a number of artful little schemes which he called 'wheezes', the most successful of these being a lecture on

    Madame Midas Fergus Hume 1895

  • Not everything that 'wheezes' is asthma, and not every asthmatic is 'wheezing'

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Before I leave, I give a stethoscope to Trokon, knowing that his own rendered even the obvious wheezes of the asthmatic or the murmur of the worst heart defects muffled and unrecognizable.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • They train their ears to pick out the racing heart sounds layered beneath the louder wheezes, the whistle that is the escaping of trapped air.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

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