stertorously
IPA: stˈɛrtɝʌsɫi
adverb
- With heavy breathing, as if snoring; in a stertorous manner.
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Examples of "stertorously" in Sentences
- Propped up on pillows, he breathed stertorously, his face bluish black.
- The train now stamps heavily, breathes stertorously, as it climbs up and up.
- He breathed stertorously, at times grunting and moaning with the pain of his sleep.
- He breathed stertorously, and in his throat were the queer little gasping noises of one overwrought.
- But what about at home, in bed, Evian on the nightstand and Wally the mini-dachshund snoring stertorously under the covers?
- Some authors fill a novel with futuristic scenery and jargon and then strenuously, even stertorously, deny that it's science fiction.
- He told Stone that when he arrived at the London cottage he found the author doubled up in bed, unconscious, breathing stertorously, his face bluish black.
- From the window she could see the docks, the harbour, the tugs that brought cargoes in and out and puffed stertorously, shaking the very air with their efforts.
- Sohlberg the artist, responding like a chameleon to the various emotional complexions of life, began to breathe stertorously, to blanch, to lose control of himself.
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