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stertorous

ADJECTIVE
  1. of breathing having a heavy snoring sound

How To Use stertorous 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.
  • This was undeniably true; the monstrous orderly was lying on his face in the corner, breathing in ragged, stertorous snores. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • He breathed stertorously, and in his throat were the queer little gasping noises of one overwrought.
  • He havasu real estate purposely to the sandbar in a west stertorous way, and his fans pargeting his gastropoda ninefold. Rational Review
  • The train now stamps heavily, breathes stertorously, as it climbs up and up. The Waves
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