How to Use wheeze in a Sentence

wheeze

1 of 2 verb

• The car's motor wheezed and stalled.
• He was up all night hacking and wheezing.
• About 30 cadets stepped out of big vans and at least one wheezed at the stench.
  — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, baltimoresun.com, 18 June 2018
• In the wee hours of the medieval night, a monk begins to wheeze and cry in fear.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Scientific American, 19 June 2018
• The two duked it out for a round, with the larger Trafton holding the edge, then danced and wheezed for the remainder of the fight.
  — Will Larkin, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• As the living, wheezing Ailes, Crowe carries the weight in different styles, to vary the mood.
  — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 30 June 2019
• As the shot clock wheezed while holding a 3-point lead and 25 seconds left, Bradley rose up for a 3 and was fouled by Jaylon Scott.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2023
• But all of us are likely to feel the effects of a sick and wheezing economy.
  — Jarvis Deberry, cleveland, 18 Apr. 2020
• As lunch nears, the cutting boards patter, the steamers wheeze, but nothing ever roars above the woks.
  — Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong, Time, 12 July 2018
• The little house on Prairie Road rattled and wheezed as the wind ripped through its small rooms and narrow hallways with the roar of a thousand freight trains.
  — Martin Kuz, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Apr. 2018
• Instead, it’s gone the other way, and the Huskies are wheezing to the finish line at 6-5 going into the Apple Cup.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2019
• When her daughter started wheezing, Sainz stopped taking her to the park.
  — Erin Stone, azcentral, 31 Dec. 2019
• Sometimes, asthma symptoms can be mild and make a person wheeze or cough.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 20 Sep. 2017
• Hit with all kinds of injuries - even one player got shingles - FSU wheezed and gasped to find momentum.
  — Ron Higgins, NOLA.com, 16 June 2017
• The room was small and dimly lit, with pocked floors, bare walls, and a fold-out table littered with empty juice bottles; a small pink fan wheezed in the corner.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2019
• Special economic zones and tax reform are among the wheezes his wonks propose.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• And then his breathing turned to heaving, which became wheezing, until he was slumped over on the steering wheel.
  — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
• The orchestra’s performance wheezed to a halt, much to the audience’s chagrin.
  — Peter Vanham, Fortune Europe, 8 Nov. 2023
• Amir began wheezing at night — once so badly that an ambulance was called — and woke up most mornings to find his eyes swollen shut with rheum.
  — Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 9 July 2018
• Ron would wheeze while hiking, and sometimes at night, but a nebulizer made his breathing less strained.
  — Patrick Hruby, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2021
• And then the Penguin pops in again, snorting and wheezing and ruining everything.
  — Scott Meslow, GQ, 7 Feb. 2018
• Valerian wheezes to a close and then gives us a sloppy, oafish grin, one that, much like an ugly dog, both endears and repulses.
  — Jillian Selzer, Cosmopolitan, 24 July 2017
• The billowing smoke emanated from Indonesia, which wheezed its way through its worst fire season in more than 15 years.
  — Aaron Sidder, National Geographic, 1 Aug. 2016
• After watching his team clank and wheeze in the first half against the Rockets, punctuated by a fumble-finger Green pass to a surprised fan in the third row, Kerr called a timeout.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 29 May 2018
• That may help explain the desperation to get ahead, manifested by their factcheckUK wheeze.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
• Besides, listening to co-workers sneeze and wheeze is a distraction.
  — Rhett Power, chicagotribune.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• Kajal is banished from his mother’s bed to sleep in the room alongside his moaning, wheezing grandmother.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 7 Oct. 2023
• Like a stock car that ran out of gas in the final stretch of a race, Alabama wheezed and coughed at the end of its regular season before suffering a miserable fate.
  — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 3 Mar. 2018
• As the rumbling engine wheezed to a stop, a hush fell over the bus’ interior, and its quivering floor suddenly stopped vibrating.
  — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• Hemmed in by fast-growing condo developments, crumbling older houses, and the clang and wheeze of light industry, the park at Hannah and Peralta streets feels like an oasis.
  — Andrew Simmons, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Apr. 2018

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wheeze

2 of 2 noun

• We can count on him for a good wheeze.
• Between gasps and wheezes, he tried to explain what had happened.
• Yet all this pageantry was the wheeze of a dying world.
  — The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
• Or is this all just a teenage wheeze to escape boredom?
  — Tony Lacy-Thompson, The Mercury News, 18 May 2017
• That was a place where a plucky playoff dream goes to wheeze its final breaths.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
• The loud wheeze of air brakes proceeds a concussive thud.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
• The latest wheeze is charging fans 400 rupees to meet him.
  — The Economist, 13 Sep. 2019
• Blunt, 38, has this past year to thank for the fear that every little rasp or wheeze could be a sign of the pandemic.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 14 May 2021
• Sometimes, Columba Sainz can't sleep, her ears pricked for the sound of a wheeze or a cough from her young daughter's room.
  — AZCentral.com, 29 Oct. 2020
• There's a zingy wheeze when this engine revs up, but there's good power when it's prodded.
  — Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 7 Jan. 2020
• The coughs to clear my throat became involuntary and more violent, with the whistling rattle of a wheeze.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 5 July 2017
• Breathing is a huge issue for people with obesity — there’s sometimes a rattle and a wheeze in the lungs.
  — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• An organ was being tuned onstage, letting out a fluteish wheeze.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2022
• This was a questionable wheeze even when European airports lobbied for it in the 1950s.
  — The Economist, 27 Feb. 2021
• Sixty people cough and wheeze inside the clinic’s tiny waiting room.
  — Rebecca Curtis, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• The policemen’s conversation kept coming through, as did the drunken shouts, the squeak of shoes on the floor, the wheeze of an automatic door, the slap of a hand on the button that opened it, the knock of a bed against it.
  — Timothy Snyder, The New York Review of Books, 3 Sep. 2020
• Not that the film, directed by Lizzie Gottlieb, Robert’s daughter, is some whimsical wheeze about two codgers trying to eke out a last hurrah.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan. 2023
• Or heard a lithium battery wheeze its last, horrifying breath?
  — Eli Burnstein, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2021
• Others worry that the bankruptcy is a financial wheeze which lets the company and its owners off too easily.
  — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
• The new performances up the intensity, which is only further heightened by the nasty rasp and sinister wheeze that age has visited upon Lunch’s voice.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 13 July 2017
• The legend made sense when Stripey emitted an uneven wheeze reminiscent of someone trying desperately to stop laughing long enough to catch her breath.
  — Helen Sullivan, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2019
• Upon announcement, Buddy’s milestone case appeared fairly open and shut, but the Mahoneys’ experience over the two and a half months between their dog’s first wheeze and his death was one of confusion and heartbreak.
  — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 29 July 2020
• The answer is not, as is suggested now, including by some at National Review, ‘a return to congressional government.’ That is a fraud and merely the latest wheeze of the never-Trumpers.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 6 Sep. 2017
• The snow leopards all began exhibiting minor respiratory symptoms, including a dry cough and wheeze, within the last two weeks.
  — Ben Tobin, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2020
• There are no heroes here, just Kidman fully immersing herself in a character for whom every action is an attack, for whom every word is a wheeze, and for whom every movement looks labored.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2021
• While children with a lower respiratory infection like RSV tend to wheeze, such noises may only be apparent to medical providers.
  — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 3 Mar. 2023
• Team Johnson has since floated a number of wheezes to circumvent this, from requesting that a friendly EU member state vetoes the request, thereby guaranteeing a no-deal Brexit, or simply ignoring the instruction.
  — Luke McGee, CNN, 14 Sep. 2019
• There needs to be international cooperation to fight corporate wheezes.
  — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2019
• Various wheezes have been proposed to get around this, including off-balance-sheet vehicles linked to public bodies like universities or housing associations that can tap markets without violating the debt brake.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• However, there were no significant associations between vaping nicotine and wheeze.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 24 Dec. 2020

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