raspy

How To Use raspy In A Sentence

• It seemed that every bar, no matter how tiny, had wedged a trio of musicians into a corner - one singing, one playing guitar and another scratching out a raspy beat on the guiro, a hollow gourd played with a stick.
• Slowly I settled against him and I listened to his breathing; it was raspy and every once in a while he would cough, but he still held me tight.
• ( "There's no" K "in Klingon, and that's that!" he insisted, illustrating the raspy, back-of-the-throat "kh" - type consonants he'd woven into the lingo instead). Theater Review: Washington Shakespeare Company's evening of the Bard in Klingon
• ‘How strange’ the figure said in a raspy metallic voice, not dissimilar to X's.
• The women were all in sequins and diamonds and they smoked cigarettes and had raspy voices and husky laughs.
• It doesn't matter if it has that like kind of raspy thing because it works with his voice. CNN Transcript May 28, 2006
• From what sounds like an amalgamation of hardcore and thrash metal, any promising musical ability is then shrouded by the raspy rap-rattled-off vocals, which are then accompanied by a dominating rhythm.
• No more labored breathing and no more post-nasal drip and raspy throat the next morning.
• ‘You're supposed to travel along it,’ said a small boy with a raspy voice that was well out of proportion with his body size.
• His banter with newsmen Walter Cronkite and Roger Mudd and his unmistakable "raspy" voice made him famous throughout the country and the world. WN.com - Financial News