Read full poem →By the inn door: ere I alight
I wait and hear the starlings wheeze
And nibble like ducks: I wait his flight.
Dictionary Entry
A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. wheezewheeze expiratorywheeze asthmaticwheeze old
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Poetry examples for “wheeze”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her,
We'll remember at Aix"--for one heard the quick wheeze
Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering knees,
Read full poem →Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her,
We'll remember at Aix"--for one heard the quick wheeze
Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering knees,
Read full poem →Your Roos galloped bravely--the fault's not in her;
We'll remember at Aix"--for one heard the quick wheeze
Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering knees,
Read full poem →heights:
You've the brown plowed land before, where the oxen steam and wheeze,
And the hills over-smoked behind by the faint gray 20