growl
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Mr. Waits is terrific here, his growl of a voice put to gentle use as a solitary person evidently glad and endearingly nervous to see his children.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
As a child, Lulu modelled herself on James Brown and Big Mama Thornton – gritty R&B singers who lent their grit and growl to Lulu's version of Shout.
From BBC • Sep. 23, 2025
She dropped into her gravelly Cookie Monster growl for the answer: “Brown food tastes good.”
From Salon • Sep. 4, 2025
Its enormous, melancholy and melodic sound pulls from electronic music, jazz, hip-hop and ambient, landing between the dazed crunch of Deftones and growl of Meshuggah, sharing Gen Z’s genre-agnostic outlook.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2025
The answering growl was like a deep rumble of thunder, or the roar of a steam engine approaching the station, or the sound of a snowy avalanche on some distant alpine peak.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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