gravelly

There was already a voice keeping her company as she walked, and a gravelly, enigmatic voice it was.

Mr. Curry’s voice is now flattened and gravelly, and I found it a strain to listen until I sped up his delivery, as you can do with audiobooks.

She dropped into her gravelly Cookie Monster growl for the answer: “Brown food tastes good.”

On ballads like Tonight's the Night and First Cut is the Deepest, he found new ways around the melodies, accommodating the cracks and crevices that have appeared in his famously gravelly voice.

In one clip, he uses it to deliver a gravelly, reverent takedown of Chuck E. Cheese: “A casino for the juice box crowd, where the ATM is your dad and the mouse always wins.”