stertorous

ADJECTIVE
  1. of breathing having a heavy snoring sound
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How To Use stertorous In A Sentence

  • No, not stertorous," reflects our narrator three pages in, remembering his ailing father, "rather wheezeful, softer, gulping, an immeasurably beautiful strange ancient fish glopping glooping groping rasping for air, at air …" But in this quest for literary uniqueness, there is too much calculation and coldness; something of the "love" needed to make it a full-blooded work of art is missing. Debut fiction: Quilt by Nicholas Royle; The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai by Ruiyan Xu; The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy
  • Still all quiet, apart from Dennis's stertorous breathing behind her. AFTERMATH
  • In the past, it had always ended with Billy's orgasm, followed by detumescence, a poorly aimed kiss near the ear, a slipping away into stertorous sleep. Sympathy
  • Taurus Antinor's breath came in short, stertorous gasps, his throat was parched and his tongue clove to the roof of his mouth. "Unto Caesar"
  • His breathing was so stertorous we had a standing joke. Beard
  • Propped up on pillows, he breathed stertorously, his face bluish black. Did Jack London Commit Suicide?
  • When he returned at half-past eleven o'clock, he found his rooms full of a strong odour of laudanum; his wife was breathing stertorously and lying unconscious on the bed.
  • A couched spear of acuminated granite rested by him while at his feet reposed a savage animal of the canine tribe whose stertorous gasps announced that he was sunk in uneasy slumber, a supposition confirmed by hoarse growls and spasmodic movements which his master repressed from time to time by tranquilising blows of a mighty cudgel rudely fashioned out of paleolithic stone. Ulysses
  • he was breathing stertorously
  • He breathed stertorously, at times grunting and moaning with the pain of his sleep. THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY
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