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Example sentences for "wheezed"

Lexicographically close words:
wheelwrights; wheen; wheer; wheere; wheeze; wheezes; wheezing; wheezy; whele; whelk
  1. Stud hurried out to the platform as the train wheezed in and ground to a stop.

  2. Sarah hurried to prime the cistern pump which wheezed and creaked as it gushed forth a clear stream of clean-smelling rain water.

  3. See, she's that strong," wheezed Old Mat confidentially.

  4. As for Glass, he recounted tales of Mariedetta's capitulation to his employer, and wheezed merrily over the discomfiture of the Mexican girl's former admirers.

  5. Oh, that's all right," wheezed the trainer.

  6. A vast merry-go-round wheezed and sputtered; the promised brass band awoke the river echoes.

  7. Only a minute it seemed till the launch wheezed up to the landing and swung with a thud against the posts.

  8. It wheezed from the impact, but its stout oaken panels held fast.

  9. It's a gentleman calling on Mr. Slack," wheezed Mr. Leary with his head over the balusters.

  10. Jan's springs twanged and wheezed as he sat bolt upright in his bed.

  11. So can I," wheezed Chips, who was badly broken-winded.

  12. Made of" he wheezed out slowly, "what should it be made of?

  13. We have a remedy at hand," wheezed the amorous chevalier.

  14. The idea was so comically innocent, that de Breze wheezed with delight.

  15. Fine goer that," wheezed the doctor, and I didn't know whether he alluded to me or Redwheels.

  16. Then in less than two minutes he appeared with a round, red-faced, white-headed old man who wheezed chuckles as he talked.

  17. They all seemed delighted at the prospect of a change of base, all but poor old Peter, who wheezed worse than ever as he found himself hitched up to that big load, and the fine prospect of a sturdy pull, uphill, ahead of him.

  18. Sometimes the boys walked, but when they grew tired they climbed up on the load, and Peter only wheezed a bit more, as though in protest.

  19. The mange whirled and the barrel organ still wheezed its thin thread of sound across the still air.

  20. You did," wheezed the Cowardly Lion in an agitated voice.

  21. A good thing I'm not made of meat like little Dorothy," he wheezed breathlessly.

  22. Not two--one," wheezed the Doubtful Dromedary.

  23. Quite sure," wheezed the Grand Gheewizard, and fell to stirring the kettle with all his might.

  24. Pavel Zotov looked up from his endless paperwork and wheezed the sigh of a fat man.

  25. He wheezed a sigh as though sorry the interview was over and that he'd have to go back to his desk chores, but shifted his bulk and took up a sheaf of papers.

  26. It was thundered about her from one corner, it squealed at her from another, roared at her from behind, groaned at her in front; it wheezed from the roof, and the very shed in which they stood swayed and shivered to its monotonous song.

  27. The old wag-at-the-wa' clock which had belonged to her grandfather, wheezed wearily from the corner and the shrill eerie call of a courting cat outside broke familiarly upon her ear.

  28. The pipe wheezed and gurgled, and the Mary Ellen rocked and rolled.

  29. Uncle Israel wheezed so loudly that for the moment he drowned the deep purr of Claudius Tiberius.

  30. Tell Ebeneezer," wheezed the newcomer, "that I have arrived.

  31. Uncle Israel wheezed again and Mrs. Smithers smacked her lips with intense satisfaction.

  32. Open the gate for me," wheezed the breathless Mr. Brock, staggering along with his limp burden on whose forehead appeared a little blood, trickling from a slight cut.

  33. It was a long night, Orlean was restless, and wheezed and coughed all through the night.

  34. She was still very sick and wheezed when she answered, trembling at the same time: "You said I could go home until I got well.

  35. Michaelis, the ticket-of-leave apostle, was speaking in an even voice, a voice that wheezed as if deadened and oppressed by the layer of fat on his chest.

  36. She screamed again, as the engine wheezed for the eighth time.

  37. The engine had wheezed three times, and she hesitated to jump.

  38. Reckon you ain't so glad to see me," wheezed Jim, still chuckling.

  39. The horses plunged as the body dropped to the ground and Jim wheezed and cackled as he held his own beast down.

  40. So much service had it seen that its voice was grown faint, and the strokes of each hour that it gave forth were wheezed with intervals of several seconds.

  41. So the hours dragged wearily on, wheezed out, one after one, by the clock on the stairs.

  42. The clock below wheezed out nine strokes as if in answer.

  43. Eunice'll hev her hands full this winter, I guess, with them three hearty children 'n' him all wheezed up with phthisic from October to April!

  44. Berry's wife's melodeon had lost two stops, the pedals had severed connection with the rest of the works, it wheezed like an asthmatic, and two black keys were missing.

  45. And then Mr. Pritchett wheezed so grievously that what he said was not audible.

  46. You'll go down to him, master George," wheezed out poor Pritchett.

  47. I am afraid Mr. Bertram is not very much up to company just at present," wheezed out Mr. Pritchett.

  48. He did certainly make little feints at Mr. Pritchett; but Mr. Pritchett merely wheezed and said nothing.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wheezed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.