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Recent Examples of wheeze
Verb
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 But in his next video, Pratt showed himself on the floor, wheezing.—Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
Their latest wheeze to raise money is getting their caterers to invest.—Phil Hay, The Athletic, 9 Aug. 2024 But when the 2020 wildfires started pumping thick plumes of ugly black smoke into the southern California sky, the 41-year-old Los Angeles resident began to wheeze.—Linda Carroll, TIME, 30 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for wheeze
Trapped in a living prison and gasping for air, Kate must confront both real-life monsters of the deep and her inner demons as a desperate fight for survival and salvation unfolds.
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Alex Ritman,
Variety,
7 May 2025
Now the Nuggets have no choice but to keep gasping for air and rolling with Oklahoma City’s punches.
The door is heard to open with a whoosh and a hissing sound, but neither the door nor the plane exterior are shown in the aftermath.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
The composers have a WarioWare library’s worth of FX: Tiny alarms for a shocked face; rippling winds to signal someone in deep thought; kitschy screams to ratchet up the suspense; the gratifying whoosh when a vote parchment is read.
The pack sports an exterior laptop pocket for easy TSA access, catch-all zip pockets for passports and tickets, interior slip pockets for magazines and notebooks, two water bottle holders, a handy magnetic closure and a pass-through strap that attaches to rolling luggage.
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Nora Colomer
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FOXNews.com,
10 May 2025
The 2-in-1 Tote Bag keeps your chaos chic with a snap strap for your laptop, zip pockets for the tiny stuff (pacifiers or lip balm, anyone?), and twin open slots for easy phone grabs mid-diaper change.
The teenage Miller invited Horowitz to speak at Santa Monica High School in the early aughts, entranced by his bromides against multiculturalism.
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Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2025
South Carolina and other states had in the past had difficulty obtaining some drugs for lethal injections, including sodium thiopental and pancuronium bromide, due to shortages.
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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Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2025
Or, simply hang up a hammock and sway to the sound of the stream, songbirds and the gentle swoosh of the wind through the trees.
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