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[rasp, rahsp] / ræsp, rɑsp /


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On the new song Oh Daisy, there's even a Rod Stewart-esque rasp.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

In the title song, he provides a deceptively sweet melody but sings with a voice-cracking rasp, “I’ve fallen out of grace . . . / The sea has no mercy and I’m terrified of waves.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

But dig deeper, and one will find that Tyler’s discography is brimming with hits that put her unmistakable rasp to thrilling use.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

As one of the standout tracks on her 2024 album, “Orquídeas,” Uchis’ airy vocals add a new layer of dimension to Pluma’s recognizable rasp in this unexpected, but not shockingly catchy earworm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024

With an ominous rasp of metal on metal, the Hound drew his longsword.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Elordi’s voice rasps with a powerful interior dialogue that narrates the latter part of the 149-minute movie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025

“I need to talk to you,” Biden rasps, then battling COVID-19.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2025

In the video, released on Monday, a clearly distressed Muonagor, rasps in the Igbo language: "Igbo people, I greet you all."

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2024

She delivered some lines under her breath, in hushed, frantic tones and ragged rasps.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2023

“I don’t know. I’ve been wrestling with why. The World Trade Center was America’s financial engine. The American Dream,” Pop rasps.

From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Hospitalized and on oxygen, Linderman cut a grainy video in which he rasped out “this is how bad it is,” then admitted he had made a catastrophic error by not getting vaccinated.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2021

The visitors did not threaten until the 26th minute, when John McGinn ran on to a pass by Jack Grealish and rasped a shot wide from 10 yards under pressure from James Justin.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 18, 2020

Lil Wayne has rasped into life forever what Bryant was about.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2020

Jackson, perhaps unable to leave her character's acrimony at the stage door, foiled my attempts to understand how she made sense of A's changing relationship to B and C. "What relationship?" she rasped.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2018

The beast’s green tongue rasped across her visor, sliming the lower section.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

Following a surging run from midfielder Pavel Sulc, the 19-year-old Brazilian burst through a challenge before unleashing a rasping drive from the edge of the box to open the scoring in the 80th minute.

From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026

He cheerfully refused broadcast interviews because he knew how his rasping vocal chords could be interpreted.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025

New Zealand's batters were then hopping about the crease, as Archer showed his teeth with some rasping short balls.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2025

What endures is the rasping byplay, the soaring exasperation, the tango of opposing temperaments finding fleeting common ground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024

The car made rasping sounds as they drove past the gates.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


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