How To Use Wheeze In A Sentence

Liz smiles professionally and holds Larry, who wheezes and splutters, enduring his hardship with a stoicism that looks exhausting.
We advise the use of aqueous solutions (not alcohol based preparations) to avoid skin irritation and wheeze.
They're certainly a step on from his previous good wheeze, performing shows with a bucket on his head. Times, Sunday Times
Does your chest wheeze or make whistling sounds even when you do not have a cold?
I must say that I, for one, will really miss coming home from a good night out with a heathy wheeze, my nostrils ejecting generous quantities of blackened snot clogged with blood, and my eyes watering.

His head throbbed with sharp stabs of pain, he couldn't seem to stop shaking and his breath came in long, shuddering wheezes.
Volvo's latest wheeze is an optional communications package that uses telematics to summon help in an emergency.
This was no time to be helping the Guardian fill its pages with droll wheezes.
Barker etal also failed to find a significant association between birth weight and wheeze.
He listens to the oxygen machines hum and burble and gasp, the humidifier wheeze, the buzz of the fluorescent light in the hall.
'I have a chest infection,' she wheezed.
She lit a cigarette, her fingers brown from nicotine, and wheezed as she drew on the unfiltered smoke.
An honest rich man called a top tax inspector last month to report an approach by a big four firm offering a complex new capital gains tax wheeze involving "rescindable contracts". Tax collection. Now there's a moral crusade for the Tories
The older man was beginning to wheeze as he breathed.
It may be that high levels of cat allergen induce tolerance, which protects against wheeze in very young children, but provoke symptoms in older children predisposed to wheeze for various reasons.
Uriah wheezes a laugh and swaggers back to the picnic table for more wine and cheese.
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When the pig had wheezed its last breath, one man singed off its hair with a blowtorch, another gave it what I can only describe as a post-mortem enema, and its owner, a middle-aged man with a thick mustache, began to butcher it. NYT > Home Page
This is a classic case for the old wheeze about being careful what you ask for because you just might get it.
However, she was not aware, until Davis settled in, that his nights were a continual calliope of snorts, wheezes, gasps, grunts and whistles — in several different keys, no less. The Love Tap
The big door swung heavily inward behind them, wheezed against its sealing gasket, and clacked shut. STONE CITY
On six tunes, the wheeze of a button accordian added a dimension that bluegrass purists had never heard before; unfortunately, the band doesn't presently have an accordion player.
Greywolf" caps the EP with twinkling sci-fi music that gives way to a machinated wheeze, and features the ramblings of a man. The Seattle Times
The old organ wheezed.
The bus wheezed up the road to the village of Naggar, where we disembarked, hoisted our packs, and started hoofing it.
Yet the latest wheeze among policymakers in developed countries is to alleviate poverty in developing countries with computers and mobile phones.
The elder man spoke in a weak, plaintive tone, constantly stopping to wheeze and gasp for breath.
He always popped his handkerchief once, wiped his brow, and then emitted a loud wheeze - like the releasing of steam from a locomotive.
Cami did not look at her as Alyssa wheezed to a walk next to her.
After counting nine blades the mixture control was set to auto-rich and the Pratt &. Whitney radial sprang into life after a few coughs, a wheeze, and a puff of exhaust smoke.
When exercising outdoors during a smog alert, even healthy people may cough or wheeze.
His throat and lungs filled with the pungent stifling smoke of powder, his nostrils with earth and dust, he frantically wheezed and sneezed, leaping about, falling drunkenly, leaping into the air again, staggering on his hind-legs, dabbing with his forepaws at his nose head-downward between his forelegs, and even rubbing his nose into the ground. CHAPTER XIX
If you climb simulated hills on a stationary bike, you can wheeze up real ones on a mountain bike.
It must have seemed a good wheeze at the time. Times, Sunday Times
She began to cough and wheeze within a few minutes after entering the building, and became unconscious. An Alternative Approach to Allergies
The boat's engine had coughed and wheezed for a good ten minutes before he had been able to coax it into working order.
He had quite serious problems with his chest and wheezed and coughed all the time.
The chest had diffuse wheezes and occasional rales.
Barker etal also failed to find a significant association between birth weight and wheeze.
I say wheeze because every generation feels the need to reinvent a graduated state pension, much as it reinvents the grammar school and the nuclear deterrent.
These symptoms last a day or 2 and are followed by worsening of the cough and the appearance of wheezes (high-pitched whistling noises when breathing out).
It sounds like a good wheeze for the performers: 'Ooh. Times, Sunday Times
It used to be a ventilation shaft, so at least you can breathe a little easier as you wheeze your way up the stairs. Times, Sunday Times
They're certainly a step on from his previous good wheeze, performing shows with a bucket on his head. Times, Sunday Times
Applying my earlier test of what a Jury would make of it, I am also confident that they would think differently from the Standards & Privileges Committee and swiftly adjudge it to be a thoroughly dishonest wheeze. Archive 2009-02-08
Wheeze is just one of a constellation of common respiratory symptoms, including cough, phlegm, and shortness of breath.
As I scooped up the tortoise, it gave an indignant wheeze and swiftly retracted its limbs and head, bringing up the hinged piece of plastron that closes the brown-and-butterscotch patterned “box” of protective shell. Beginner’s Grace
The wheeze won red-top plaudits, with the headline "the cap fits". Social security: The new poor law | Editorial
The midway, while still a charming slice of carnival colour, is full of antiquated rides that wheeze and shudder like geezers on their deathbeds.
I wheeze at night and cough during workouts, but I am swimming fast.
Whilst our cities wheeze from the effects of chemical pollutants there is another form of pollution gathering in the atmosphere.
It must have seemed a good wheeze at the time. Times, Sunday Times
Noisy breathing (stridor) – An audible wheeze when your baby breathes in. Laryngomalacia
Research has found that babies and children exposed regularly to smoky atmospheres are twice as likely to have asthma attacks or chest infections, are more likely to get coughs, colds and wheezes and are off school sick more often.
The shop clerk, a gnarled old woman with teeth blacker than the abysses of Hell, wheezed.
'Boy,' wheezed old Pop Ryan.
I dare to ask; my throat is sore, and my voice sounds like a nasal wheeze.
There is not a sound, apart from the faint wheeze of someone playing a harmonica.
She was sitting between a fat man who wheezed a lot and a woman who definitely overdid the perfume.
‘Thank you, everyone,’ Nick wheezed as the shuttle moved on, re-entering Earth's ozone.
A valet whisks a car away for arriving patrons, while down at the corner, a Metro bus wheezes and clanks to a stop.
The lord's voice wheezed out of him, like the wind being squeezed from a pair of rotten bellows. STARDUST
Inside, the group browsed, coughed, hacked, wheezed, and spluttered.
He did not complain of cough, fever, hemoptysis, wheeze, or chest pain.
He has a slight wheeze in his chest.
Another sign is a cough or a wheeze or breathing problems, sinusitis or other nasal problems.
Nowitzki coughed and wheezed and used his warm-up jacket to wipe his nose. Dirk Sparks Dallas to Win, Evens Series
Yet the latest wheeze among policymakers in developed countries is to alleviate poverty in developing countries with computers and mobile phones.
In the futurist vision, pulses from e-bombs cause anything that contains computer chips to wheeze to a halt, winning without widespread devastation and allowing low-cost reconstruction - just replace the chips!
This is not just a clever publicity wheeze, it is also communicating a set of very complex and powerful points.
Barker etal reported that low birth weight was associated with lower adult lung function but not with symptoms of wheeze.
Still the indian summer held on, and he continued to crawl and faint ,turn and turn about; and ever the sick wolf coughed and wheezed at his heels.
It's not about a clash of ideals - or God forbid - ideologies; it's becoming a contest to see who can connive to sucker in the largest number of voters with the most eye-catching wheezes.
Quinn wheezed with embarrassment as color rushed to her face.
Overall, though, a jolly good wheeze. Times, Sunday Times
The man, in a veined body stocking, is a helpless victim, thrashing, lolling and collapsing like a mad puppet on twisted strings, to musical pings and wheezes.
I wheezed out a puff of air and then gradually sagged down along with my body.
This illiberal wheeze is the idea of Home Office minister.
No bank worker in their right mind would go to their boss in most Irish banks and blow the whistle on one of the bank's wheezes for making more money that they are entitled to.
Vincent lifted the pillow as Jack coughed and wheezed.
‘That's enough for today,’ Bolts wheezed as Katie entered with a super happy look on her face.
Overall, though, a jolly good wheeze. Times, Sunday Times
The scarves sag, the whistles wheeze, one last outsize banana droops.
The questions, both silly and taxing, were demonstrated using party tricks and wheezes, then explained scientifically to lend the programme an educational edge.
Policy wonks might have thought it a clever wheeze to apply New York Mayor Giuliani's zero tolerance on street crime to cannabis users.
It was a brilliant wheeze. Times, Sunday Times
Our finding that behavioral disturbance anteceded the development of wheeze and was not a secondary psychological reaction to disease is consistent with another recently published prospective study of a high-risk population.
We found no association between lung function at age 3 and late-onset wheeze in children who had not wheezed previously.
But the progress we have made, the progress that we will continue to make doesn't come from grand rhetoric, it doesn't come from clever-sounding wheezes.
The barn owl's call is distinguished by a screech that has shades of a wheeze.
The youngster had breathing problems and was given an oxygen mask, inhalers and steroid tablets after contracting a viral-induced wheeze last summer.
She was moving Willa to the other breast when downstairs the brass hinge on the mail slot wheezed open then shut. Three Stages of Amazement
Radical as ever, Brinkmann listens to the rasping of his lungs, from which his voice rises, wheezes, belches, whispers and shouts.
But is it one man's good wheeze? Times, Sunday Times
Today, I have a nice expiratory wheeze and a deeper, productive cough, and the fever is a bit more, though still not more than a hundred, if my ancient glass analog-thermometer can be believed. Archive 2010-03-01
The train wheezed wreaths of steam.
Some of these cunning wheezes succeed, and some of them don't.
The old man wheezed and gasped terribly, groaning out a little as the pain of his performance finally caught up with him.
He had no other symptoms, and the examination didn't yield a clue - no rubs, rales, wheezes, or murmur.
Umber wheezed and puffed with the effort, while Oates ran with a scowl on his face, ready to strike at anything that confronted them. End of Time
He did not complain of cough, fever, hemoptysis, wheeze, or chest pain.
This clever wheeze encapsulated both the best of Brown and the worst: it commanded the moral and political high ground in being seen to clamp down on non-declaration of income.
Elsewhere, as you'll have noticed, tactical buttons were the wheeze of the week.
Our concern is that this is all a wheeze not to pay rent for the foreseeable future to the detriment of the pension fund.
For bed endotoxin, allergic subjects were more likely than nonallergic subjects to wheeze with higher endotoxin concentration.
Whilst our cities wheeze from the effects of chemical pollutants there is another form of pollution gathering in the atmosphere.
And so his henchmen have come up with a new wheeze. The Sun
It is possible that the deficits in lung function in persistent and transient wheezers may have already been present at a much younger age.
He did not know if the record player still worked: it had wheezed and scraped even then as they lay on their bed listening to the sarangi, watching the luminous night sky sliced up by the window grill. An Atlas of Impossible Longing
Quickly I entered my car and started the engine, which coughed and wheezed into life.
At night when I'm lying in my bed, my wheezes echo throughout my apartment.
It sounds a great wheeze. Times, Sunday Times
“Give me a minute,” I wheezed, holding up one hand. How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf
There was an appalled silence except from the other twin, who wheezed merrily. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
There's a wheeze of accordion and deep, dulcet electric guitar.
Dreyr collapsed into a heap on the floor and wheezed as the figure walked away, its cloak billowing in the breeze and giving the illusion that the figure was much larger and more formidable.
She wheezed ever so slightly, a small whistle that sounded almost musical.
Barker etal reported that low birth weight was associated with lower adult lung function but not with symptoms of wheeze.
Trading in a unique mix of absurdism and knowingly ancient music hall puns and wheezes, slapstick, cross-talk and gentle songs, the Gang was an essentially theatrical phenomenon.
Little is known about the influence of sleep on persistent wheeze in asthmatic patients.
The massive machine wheezed and spewed diesel smoke as it pushed an enormous heap of concrete debris, olive trees, and metal sheeting into a larger pile at the roadside.
“Shenu,” I wheezed as Caleb returned to his methodical pacing. My Fair Succubi
His voice wheezed ever so slightly, as if he had shouted a lot when he was younger.
Pyetushkov began smoking; the pipe wheezed like a broken-winded horse. A Desperate Character
'I have a chest infection,' she wheezed.
I reckon that particular musicals wheeze is a busted flush. Times, Sunday Times
Children exposed to secondhand smoke are also more likely to have reduced lung function and symptoms of respiratory irritation like cough, excess phlegm, and wheeze.
He opens his mouth in response and lets out a low wheeze.
Baby Gliss never had a chance _ born infected with the AIDS virus, abandoned by his mother, now wracked by disease that emaciates his face and makes him wheeze for breath. ANC Daily News Briefing
Flats for the middle classes were a new wheeze. Times, Sunday Times
“I don't want things this way,” Hector said, more to himself and his bucket than to Rico; the other man coughed and wheezed. Agape
The boat's engine had coughed and wheezed for a good ten minutes before Kami had been able to coax it into working order.
Quickly I entered my car and started the engine, which coughed and wheezed into life.
Doesn't this wheeze sound familiar? Times, Sunday Times
He had always been an enthusiast for technological wheezes, from a doomed scheme for the underground gasification of coal to a death-ray which killed rats.
`Dutchie shouldn't," he wheezed, with rheumy old eyes streaming. THE TARTAN RINGERS
He has a slight wheeze in his chest.
But is it one man's good wheeze? Times, Sunday Times
Abruptly the old man wheezed and slumped back in his chair, one stiff, gnarled hand to his chest.
She had cringed at the wheeze of the roundabout as it winded to a stop.
Who knows what daft wheezes they would contrive.
Tracheal stenosis after intubation usually presents as shortness of breath and either or both inspiratory stridor and expiratory wheeze on exertion.
I didn't care, and felt the urge to swear again but was too out of breath to do more than wheeze and clutch at the stitch in my side.
That is a touch beyond the ear or the hand of Fletcher: a chord sounded from Apollo's own harp after a somewhat hoarse and reedy wheeze from the scrannel-pipe of a lesser player than Pan. A Study of Shakespeare
Asthma and wheeze among nonallergic subjects were nonsignificantly related to endotoxin exposure.
It was a brilliant wheeze. Times, Sunday Times
The opposition seems to have embarked on a fruitless strategy to force the organisation to be less, how shall we put it, opaque in his parliamentary contributions and other wheezes.
Barker etal reported that low birth weight was associated with lower adult lung function but not with symptoms of wheeze.
On a hot afternoon, a Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus approaches a bus stop in JP Nagar and wheezes to a halt a few metres away.
The shadow emitted a terrible sound, an awful wheeze of frenzied laughter suppressed until it became strangling.
As a part of their latest marketing wheeze they've planted fifty-pound notes in a number of the crisp packets.
Still the indian summer held on, and he continued to crawl and faint ,turn and turn about; and ever the sick wolf coughed and wheezed at his heels.
The air, however, holds the suspended product of untold sneezes, coughs and wheezes, many of them, we must remember in the time of SARS, from Chinese Canadians.
Flats for the middle classes were a new wheeze. Times, Sunday Times
As Eli wheezed his last breath, Cooper sank to the ground, resting his chin on his paws. How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf
His face is waxen and his breath comes in wheezes, and as I move to pick him up his skin is hot to the touch.
Quinn wheezed with embarrassment as color rushed to her face.
Still the indian summer held on, and he continued to crawl and faint ,turn and turn about; and ever the sick wolf coughed and wheezed at his heels.
Standard Life/Resolution Taking a company out of mutualization has been a popular wheeze. For BHP, Buying Friendship
Then we sat and chatted as the little thermal printer attached to the spiro-whatsit machine wheezed out its report.
It was so close that she could hear its hot breath escaping in snuffles and wheezes from its fleshy black nose and blood-red mouth.
I've had a wheeze - why don't we put both kids in the small room and that will leave the back room free.
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
It sounds like a good wheeze for the performers: 'Ooh. Times, Sunday Times
The effect of skin test reactivity remained significant for all symptoms except exercise-induced wheeze.
So the culture department has invented this new wheeze just for us. Times, Sunday Times
He just didn't realize that, in addition to making him wheeze and sneeze, pollens could sap him of his energy.
Most of the few cars that pass are American relics of the Batista era, battered but much restored; they rattle and wheeze like beasts of burden driven forward under duress.
She began to cough and wheeze within a few minutes after entering the building, and became unconscious. An Alternative Approach to Allergies
Groaning, he got up and hobbled down the steps that led to the path below, emitting a wheeze with every breath. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
Nocturnal wheeze and cough are considered to be common features of asthma.
The redheaded guy wheezed, and blood bubbled over his lips. Mercy Kill
The cough, wheeze and shortness of breath are things that go with smoking, not with age.
She lit a cigarette, her fingers brown from nicotine, and wheezed as she drew on the unfiltered smoke.
When, eventually, the phone did ring, interrupting the air conditioner's emphysematous wheeze, all three of the men jumped. Villa Incognito
a clever wheeze probably succeeded in neutralizing the German espionage threat
The track blossoms into a wonderful cacophony of bells, whistles, and wheezes.
What it can do is facilitate you - and me - to employ Naresh and others like him by thinking up various wheezes which guarantee employment.
And so his henchmen have come up with a new wheeze. The Sun
Talking of killjoys, I see the Food and Drink Federation's latest wheeze for tackling the problem of obesity is to force restaurants and take-aways to carry detailed nutritional information about every dish on their menu.
I'm much more certain about the Chancellor's latest wheeze for grabbing more money to fund his extravagant spending plans.
Chiefly we noted two young men with a graphophone on wheels which, being pushed about, wheezed out the latest songs to the acceptance of large crowds. Familiar Spanish Travels
The big door swung heavily inward behind them, wheezed against its sealing gasket, and clacked shut. STONE CITY
But yesterday, it came up with a new wheeze. The Sun
Try for that “wheeze-box on fire” sound –- the one that sounds like someone sandpapering an elbow. Buzzine » Comedy By the Numbers
It sounded like a good wheeze: she was given a script to read from and told she could do it from home. Times, Sunday Times
With the first look of apprehension and the first wheeze, she pounced with the ephedrine or the isoprenaline, summoned one of the professors, and had the sufferer nicely propped up in a chair by the time someone arrived, ready to be talked out of further wheezes, and if that were not possible, ready for whatever treatment was ordered. You Don't Take Names
The old man eyed me suspiciously and limped forward as he wheezed and gasped for breath.
The physical exam may be normal or the lung exam may reveal fine rales or wheezes.
This could have been one of those rare wheezes which combines a desirable outcome with populist appeal.
He was higgling with the proprietor of an immense hog, and as he higgled he wheezed as if he had a difficulty of respiration, and frequently wiped off, with a dirty-white pocket-handkerchief, drops of perspiration which stood upon his face. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
So the culture department has invented this new wheeze just for us. Times, Sunday Times
The major wheezed his farewells and Stephen found himself the possessor of a shiny belt, new boots and a deferential batman.
Splutter and wheeze in an uncontrollable manner, then rush back to the Kleenex as the yellow volcano continues to erupt.
So the public actually pay to feed the animals in the zoo? That seems like a good wheeze.
Still have a bit of a chesty wheeze and cough too, but, hopefully it will all be cleared in the next day or two.
It coughed and wheezed to a stop beside the pumps, and I dutifully walked out to serve the tired and dishevelled middle-aged woman sitting behind the wheel.
It sounds a great wheeze. Times, Sunday Times
It sounded like a good wheeze: she was given a script to read from and told she could do it from home. Times, Sunday Times
But yesterday, it came up with a new wheeze. The Sun

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