gravelly

Example Sentences

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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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Salon

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.

From BBC

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.”

From Salon

Those same influences reverberate throughout her eclectic albums — unmistakably threaded through with her gravelly, gorgeous voice.

From Los Angeles Times