Stertorous – (of breathing) noisy and laboured; heavy snoring

She created such a stir with that torturous (stertorous) heavy snoring.

Examples of stertorous in a sentence

I went to the doctors because my stertorous breathing was getting worse.

The stertorous snores could be heard throughout the entire hotel.

You could see how unfit the new runner was from his stertorous breathing as he crossed the line.