Explore Wheeze through 7 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like breathing or respire. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Wheeze meaning
- To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
- To convulse with laughter; to become breathless due to intense laughing.
- To make a sound that resembles the sound of human wheezing.
Synonyms of Wheeze
Using Wheeze
- The main meaning on this page is: To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma. | To convulse with laughter; to become breathless due to intense laughing. | To make a sound that resembles the sound of human wheezing.
- Useful related words include: breathing, respire, take a breath, breathe.
Context around Wheeze
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wheeze
- In this selection, "wheeze" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, whimsical, higher, laptop and prevalence stand out and add context to how "wheeze" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aches and wheeze then chances and infantino s wheeze of a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wheeze" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wheeze
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Paradoxically, increased n-3 intake was related to higher wheeze prevalence (). (11 words)
That's not when making the laptop wheeze by trying to play Fortnite, but just doing some light work and browsing. (21 words)
Ceferin and the Conmebol president, Alejandro Domínguez, acted together to head off Infantino’s wheeze of a World Cup every two years. (22 words)
If you fill with dread every time you have a scratchy throat, body aches and wheeze then chances are you might have a few old Covid tests lying around in the kitchen junk drawer. (34 words)
We’d see our water meters fall, then hear our characters wheeze and hack, which was our cue to stagger off to the respawn bed on our raft and wait for death. (32 words)
Not that the film, directed by Lizzie Gottlieb, Robert’s daughter, is some whimsical wheeze about two codgers trying to eke out a last hurrah. (25 words)
Example sentences (7)
Ceferin and the Conmebol president, Alejandro Domínguez, acted together to head off Infantino’s wheeze of a World Cup every two years.
If you fill with dread every time you have a scratchy throat, body aches and wheeze then chances are you might have a few old Covid tests lying around in the kitchen junk drawer.
Not that the film, directed by Lizzie Gottlieb, Robert’s daughter, is some whimsical wheeze about two codgers trying to eke out a last hurrah.
Paradoxically, increased n-3 intake was related to higher wheeze prevalence ().
That's not when making the laptop wheeze by trying to play Fortnite, but just doing some light work and browsing.
There was no association between consumption of α-LA, EPA, DHA, AA, or n-3/n-6 ratio with the prevalence of wheeze.
We’d see our water meters fall, then hear our characters wheeze and hack, which was our cue to stagger off to the respawn bed on our raft and wait for death.