Definitions

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  • adverb With a wheezing sound.

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  • adverb with a wheeze

Etymologies

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wheezing +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • And, when he had wheezingly complied, they would arise under their loads, remark that it was real heartening, and hit the forward trail again.

    LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

  • Behold: A wheezingly ancient well, circa 2002 sketch I did for DA’s own.

    Art Appreciation Moment of the Day: Adam Warren | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • It's the song where Dylan wheezingly sings about how he's thinking about Alicia Keyes and crying ... ..

    Tom Gliatto: Simon Cowell and Bob Dylan 2008

  • Daerid wheezingly interjected some tale about a man falling off a horse whenever he had breath enough, but there was nothing funny in the bits Mat heard.

    Lord of Chaos Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1994

  • As Financial Friend heaved wheezingly to his feet the general consensus of opinion taken from those seated about the table would have been that if overeating didn't get him, pressure of work would.

    Psychosphere Lumley, Brian 1984

  • The captain guffawed wheezingly and the supercargo gave a short bark of derisive laughter.

    Decision at Doona McCaffrey, Anne 1969

  • And instead Dunn gasped wheezingly from the rock where I had let him drop, and Collins drawled as if we had met yesterday:

    The La Chance Mine Mystery Susan Morrow Jones

  • 'You can make a row if you like,' the fat man said wheezingly; 'but the governor's orders is the governor's orders.

    Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

  • And, when he had wheezingly complied, they would arise under their loads, remark that it was real heartening, and hit the forward trail again.

    Like Argus of the Ancient Times 1918

  • He lay upon his back, his puffy hands folded across his spherical abdomen where his pantaloons met a sweaty pink-striped shirt; and he panted wheezingly through his nose.

    Desert Dust J. Clinton Shepherd 1911

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