hoarse

Outside a metro station, 18-year-old high school students Tomas Hernanz and Martin Pena still had hoarse voices after hours of chanting.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

But the most notable aspect of the president’s hoarse and breathy address was what he didn’t say.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

The group’s primal musical stew came from thoroughly American ingredients: ragged blues, chugging rock, narcotic country and hoarse soul.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Muncy said, his hoarse voice beginning to crack.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2025

“He’s really hoarse from the surgery, so it hurts for him to speak. But don’t worry, the doctors say he’s doing well. And it helps that he has all your love and prayers.”

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

But the enthusiasm of the crowd remained undiminished, with fans staying on their feet and singing, their voices growing hoarser, through all nine innings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2018

The young man bemused by the absurdities of civilization comes on now like a comic equivalent of an Old Testament Prophet, harsher and hoarser and invigorated with age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2017

Rufus Sewell stars as Zen, looking very Italian, but sounding exactly like Rufus Sewell, only hoarser.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 3, 2011

Costello winced, and his voice got suddenly hoarser.

From Time Magazine Archive

Throughout the night, his breathing grew hoarser and his skin was damp.

From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin

Soon, she would be holding Luna’s hand for the last time, touching her face for the last time—speaking her words of love in the hoarsest of whispers.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

“Yes, get right away from here, if you please!” said Grandpa Croaker in his deepest, hoarsest, rumbling, grumbling, thunder-voice.

From Bully and Bawly No-Tail by Louis Wisa

Jane was recalled from her polite scrutiny of the women at the next table by hearing her name mentioned in Droom's hoarsest voice, modified into something like a whisper.

From Jane Cable by George Barr McCutcheon

As soon as the tune was raised, Ned struck in, with one of the loudest, hoarsest, and most discordant voices that ever annoyed a solemn assembly.

From Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader by Louise Manly

This roused the sleeper, who, half groaning, and puffing the air through his nostrils, grumbled out, in the hoarsest voice that I ever heard, and in a tone of surly impatience, "Who is there?"

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown