How To Use Croupy In A Sentence

If you are not able to break your child's fast breathing and croupy cough, call your child's doctor or seek medical attention as soon as possible.
Inspiratory stridor, with or without intercostal recession, pallor, with or without cyanosis with cough and "croupy" voice. Chapter 7
If your child starts to make louder croupy noises when he or she breathes, try the following measures.
Cases of fatal croup still occasionally occur which cannot be directly traced to other cases of diphtheria, but the vast majority of them are clearly traceable to infection, usually from some case in another child, which was so mild that it was not recognized as diphtheria until the baby became "croupy" and search was made through the family throats for the bacilli. Preventable Diseases
One mother of a croupy child remembered that she made a night-time house call on a cold January evening (Dr. Reyersbach was a terrible driver) simply because "I know it's very scary. We Remember - Gertrud C. Reyersbach, 1907 - 1999

There is a brazen, barking, "croupy" cough in spasmodic croup. The Mother and Her Child
A "croupy" child should be carefully shielded from all physical excitation, sudden waking from sleep, and any punishment that tends to awaken intense fear or terror. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
By midnight, when I slipped in to push a little more Tyelnol into her sleeping mouth, she was not so hot, and her room was the perfect oasis for a croupy child - cool, but nor cold, and as moist as a rainforest. Archive 2008-01-01
This past week, however, the three-year-old came downstairs one morning, sat on the step to play, and started to cough a new, nasty, croupy cough. Dr. G : Why You Should Practice Emergency Preparedness With Your Kids
Another round of croupy business, followed a week later by a nasty, congested, coughing cold, and now, that cold has morphed. Archive 2008-01-01
A 21-month-old, previously healthy girl presented initially with a generalized rash and nonproductive cough, which progressively became croupy with moderate stridor.
It seemed as though dozens of men were snoring at the same time, and that some of them were dangerously "croupy," for they choked and gulped, and every now and then one would have nightmare and groan and yell until some one would tell him to "shut up," or perhaps say something funny about him to the others. Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888