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Recent Examples of wheeze
Verb
This causes children to wheeze and have all sorts of noisy breathing.—Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 15 Jan. 2025 The Heat, wheezing into town after a double-overtime loss in Sacramento the night before, didn’t have Jimmy Butler and beat the Warriors by 16 points, capping a 3-3 homestand that felt more disastrous than decent considering context.—Anthony Slater, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
Orlok cuts a formidable figure made even more disconcerting by his constant wheeze, rolling R’s and guttural dialogue.—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2024 Their latest wheeze to raise money is getting their caterers to invest.—Phil Hay, The Athletic, 9 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for wheeze
Hunt briefly shook, gasped and raised his head off the gurney.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 June 2025
These teens were sometimes gasping and talking to the screen, laughing at points, fully immersed, fully relating, even feeling nostalgic for TikTok trends that were popping three years ago.
By the time the half-time whistle had been blown, England were leading 5-0, Beever-Jones had completed her hat-trick, Hampton had yet to lay a glove on the ball and the backspace key was taking an absolute hammering.
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Ali Rampling,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
However, referee Thomas Bramall blew his whistle, on the reasonable basis that, from his angle, Bayindir had two hands on the ball, which, by the laws of soccer, would mean Rogers had committed a foul.
Rushing by in whooshes of chapters named after Pagnol’s numerous famous plays and films, Chomet conveys in textbook fashion that this is a life worthy of memoir, and worthy of the pleasant story device of little Marcel guiding big Marcel.
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Ritesh Mehta,
IndieWire,
20 May 2025
Sixty minutes from busy freeways to lush fairways, from the whoosh of traffic to whispering surf
A southern California vacation can be a whirlwind affair, what with the encircling ring of still-life highways clogged by road-ragers at any and all hours of the day.
There’s a warmth to the movie that makes its cliches feel earned, not lazy.
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Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
Wilson delivered platitudes and cliches at the podium, but ultimately so far, the offense’s play has not been anywhere close to good enough in the open practices thus far.
There is one exterior zip pocket that fits my iPhone for easy access.
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Boutayna Chokrane,
Wired News,
13 June 2025
The 26-year-old hit the ground running after joining Manchester City in January, scoring eight goals across all competitions for Pep Guardiola’s side, adding real zip to an inconsistent front line.
The Nike swoosh, Nadal’s Bull, and Federer's monogram are recognizable without words.
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Merlisa Lawrence Corbett,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
At the climax of the show, drones formed an arc and lit up one by one to look like the swoosh of a shooting star before the castle below them transformed into the crystalline centerpiece of the upcoming Abu Dhabi park.
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