rasp

It’s a light mist, then a transparent tone; a crude rasp, then soft and broken or boldly ringing and round, and often many of the above within a single song.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 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

The new mix showcases the singer's strength as a vocalist - with a tell-tale rasp that catches on the song's message of friendship and solidarity.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2024

She matched Winehouse’s signature jazzy tone, but doesn’t have the low register rasp that made Winehouse’s voice unique.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024

Vola settled herself on a barrel beside him and picked up a rasp and an oily cloth.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

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

From the first verse, he works up to throat-tearing rasps, trying to convince himself that one kiss would get her back, eventually deploying a horn section as his desperation grows.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

“I think you can put it together,” she rasps.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

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

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

Howard Cosell rasped it reverently and those sweet scientists were star attractions on talk show couches alongside Jack Paar and Johnny Carson.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2016

In the ambulance, in her husband’s arms, she rasped out with her last breath the words: “Phil … I love you, Phil.”

From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2016

“If you’re going to the store, you can just get me that Easter ham,” Miss Trixie rasped.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Yasin Ayari set Sweden on their way to a comprehensive win with a rasping shot from 25 yards that arrowed into the corner.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

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

The game, which ended 1-1, is best remembered for Siphiwe Tshabalala's rasping second-half strike to put Bafana Bafana in front.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 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

Again I assayed a response; this time, there was a low growl, a hideous, rasping gargle in the throat.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson