raspy
Origin of raspy
1Other words from raspy
- rasp·i·ness, noun
- un·rasp·y, adjective
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How to use raspy in a sentence
Known as the Five Foot Assassin, the rapper from A Tribe Called Quest became a hip-hop legend in the ’90s for his raspy flows, punchy one-liners and infectious enthusiasm.
The week of April 7, she started hearing raspy coughs from inside patient rooms.
900,000 infected. Nearly 15,000 dead. How the coronavirus tore through D.C., Maryland and Virginia. | Rebecca Tan, Antonio Olivo, John D. Harden | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostHer voice was raspy and after answering questions she paused, as if about to faint.
Jeopardy! Champion Julia Collins’s Brain Feels Like Mush | Sujay Kumar | November 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA deep, raspy voice seems the only vestige of the three decades he spent pounding his body with poisons.
I hear it again in my ears, as I did that day in October 1971, ardent and raspy, unchanged by the passage of time.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: André Malraux’s Bangladesh, Before the Radicals | Bernard-Henri Lévy | April 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
I heard your trademark raspy voice came from a childhood malady?
Emma Stone On ‘The Amazing Spider-Man,’ Andrew Garfield, & More | Marlow Stern | June 26, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTNo, sorry, I speak fast, and my voice is kind of raspy because we went out drinking last night.
Sometimes a blue miasmic haze settled down, and the dry raspy hides of the elephants grew damp and they fretted at their chains.
The Adventures of Kathlyn | Harold MacGrathShe held out her hands; the dry raspy trunk curled out toward them.
The Adventures of Kathlyn | Harold MacGrathHis voice got a little raspy; it is certain that his eyes were a little dim.
Sue, A Little Heroine | L. T. MeadeIt is, in truth, somewhat saturnine; rather raspy, occasionally vitriolic.
Duarte, his soft raspy words choked and unintelligible, embraced Hall.
The Five Arrows | Allan Chase
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