wheezy

[US]/'wiːzɪ/
[UK]/'wizi/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. making a noise while breathing.

Example Sentences

My breathing is harsh and wheezy.

Spring is showery, flowery, bowery. Summer is hoppy, croppy, poppy. Autumn is wheezy, sneezy, freezy. Winter is slippy, drippy, nippy.

After running up the stairs, he was wheezy and out of breath.

The old man's chest sounded wheezy when he breathed.

She was feeling wheezy from the dust in the air.

The child's asthma made him wheezy at night.

The wheezy sound of the old car's engine indicated it needed repair.

The wheezy accordion added a unique charm to the music.

The wheezy fan struggled to cool the room in the hot weather.

The doctor prescribed an inhaler to help with the patient's wheezy breathing.

The wheezy old computer took a long time to start up.

The wheezy laugh of the old man echoed through the room.

Real-world Examples

" No need, Dumbledore, " said a wheezy growl.

Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

It's when you get wheezy and you're breathing heavily.

Source: Grandparents' Vocabulary Lesson

" Of course, of course, " said Doge; he had a rather high-pitched, wheezy voice.

Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

I saw him dance with another lad, dance wildly, to the wheezy music of the concertina.

Source: The Moon and Sixpence (Condensed Version)

Wormtail's fast, wheezy breathing was growing louder again. It sounded as though he was forcing something heavy across the ground.

Source: 4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Just a little wheezy, Susan, are you not?

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: New Cases (Part Two)

" Oh, dear, " said Old Wrinkly, chuckling in a wheezy way over his pipe.

Source: Animation English

Among these, two made themselves prominent by their peculiarity: one was a very strong bass, the other a wheezy thin piping.

Source: Returning Home

Professor Binns, their ghost teacher, had a wheezy, droning voice that was almost guaranteed to cause severe drowsiness within ten minutes, five in warm weather.

Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

One corpulent slow boy, with a wheezy manner of breathing, ventured the answer, Because he wouldn't paper a room at all, but would paint it.

Source: Difficult Times (Part 1)

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