gravelly

Example Sentences

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Mr. Reddick, a classically trained pianist who attended Yale University’s School of Drama, often built his performances in police dramas around a drill-sergeant demeanor — with a gleaming scalp, gravelly baritone voice and ramrod bearing.

From Washington Post

In bursts of gravelly sound, he demonstrated a sentence composed of words in the study: “No, I am not thirsty.”

From New York Times

“I have a very specific set of skills,” Damon, doing his most gravelly Neeson, jokes while sitting alongside McCarthy in an interview.

From Seattle Times

That distinctive voice — a gravelly, cigarettes-and-whiskey baritone — has only ripened with age.

From Washington Post

A visitor gets there by following a lonely dirt road that dwindles to tire tracks running through a gravelly wash.

From Scientific American