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stertor

NOUN
  1. the act of snoring or producing a snoring sound

How To Use stertor In A Sentence

  • 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. Shallow Soil
  • To begin with, his stertorous breathing fell just short of snoring. Shameless
  • Then it's the middle of the night, I'm in a hospital room, somebody is breathing stertorously in the next bed behind a curtain, my brain feels like a horsehair sofa and my mouth tastes like I've eaten one.
  • Some authors fill a novel with futuristic scenery and jargon and then strenuously, even stertorously, deny that it's science fiction. Embassytown by China Miéville – review
  • Mrs. Tremaine grew more and more worried at his pallid face and stertorous breathing.
  • During one such conversation his last words were ‘there are just two other things…’ followed by unresponding, stertorous breathing.
  • The breathing is marked with great stertor, the pulse is very slow and irregular, cold sweats break out in patches on the surface of the body, and the animal often dies without having recovered consciousness. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • This was undeniably true; the monstrous orderly was lying on his face in the corner, breathing in ragged, stertorous snores. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • Recently a dose of ninety-six grains, taken toxically, produced giddiness, then epileptic convulsions, with dilated pupils, and stertor of breathing. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • He breathed stertorously, and in his throat were the queer little gasping noises of one overwrought.
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