stertorous

IPA: stˈɛrtɝʌs

Examples of "stertorous" in Sentences

His breathing was so stertorous we had a standing joke.
To begin with, his stertorous breathing fell just short of snoring.
Now his breathing was what doctors call stertorous, heavy and oppressed.
The last flask was opened, and we drank it between us, to the accompaniment of Scotty's stertorous breathing.
This was undeniably true; the monstrous orderly was lying on his face in the corner, breathing in ragged, stertorous snores.
Taurus Antinor's breath came in short, stertorous gasps, his throat was parched and his tongue clove to the roof of his mouth.
In the past, it had always ended with Billy's orgasm, followed by detumescence, a poorly aimed kiss near the ear, a slipping away into stertorous sleep.
The night comes when she lays unconscious way past dinner time, and he's getting himself a snack when he realizes she is still sleeping, thinks about his meeting that night, thinks he will take her up a cup of tea and then hears the stertorous breathing and shakes her, and his trained hands tremble and almost fail him as he tries to jab the buttons on the phone.
"No, not stertorous," reflects our narrator three pages in, remembering his ailing father, "rather wheezeful, softer, gulping, an immeasurably beautiful strange ancient fish glopping glooping groping rasping for air, at air …" But in this quest for literary uniqueness, there is too much calculation and coldness; something of the "love" needed to make it a full-blooded work of art is missing.