husky
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Her husky voice is familiar to pilots in Greek skies -- as are her outbursts.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
With her distinctive husky voice, tousled mane of blonde hair and black eyeliner, Tyler was instantly recognisable as the queen of the 1980s power ballad.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Spiro favors crawling tempos and unadorned piano melodies, which leave more room for her husky voice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
With her electric green eyes, corkscrew hair and husky contralto voice, Dame Cleo became the most recognisable British jazz singer in history.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025
“I’ll get a cloth,” she said, her voice husky, and departed abruptly.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
McNeill, who lives with her two white huskies, said only one of her historical property's original, "vulnerable" windows now remained, and she was keen to preserve it.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
The Tamaskan, a "wolfalike" breed created in the UK during the 1980s by selecting huskies, malamutes, and other dogs for a wolf-like appearance, has about 3.7 percent wolf ancestry.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2025
His charge was simply 31 sled dogs, mostly Alaskan huskies, who work in Denali National Park.
From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2025
Then again, some dogs are just more inclined to bark than others based on their breed, with Siberian huskies particularly notorious for being whiny.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2024
Sun and Moon, gray Alaskan huskies, were tireless.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
Belafonte’s voice had grown huskier when he released “Turn the World Around,” a song he wrote with Robert Freedman, but his energy was undiminished.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
Houston’s final studio album, “I Look to You,” came out in 2009 and revealed a once-mighty voice grown smaller and huskier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
Now 79, McCartney’s voice has grown huskier in his later years but still sounded good during that 2019 Vancouver show.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2022
Infections were concentrated among younger men as they flocked to signature summer events like Bear Week, part of gay culture for guys on the huskier and hairier side.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2021
The sergeant-at-arms developed a pot-belly and nearly thed of shame, but continued to cry out One-Two, in a huskier voice, on every possible occasion.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
It also found him singing in his huskiest register of the evening, to great effect.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
As the toothpick-shaped shells slid to their starting marks, Eastern hopes were centered on M.I.T.'s powerful sprint champions, huskiest boatload on the water.
From Time Magazine Archive
I doubt very much if she actually received from "the huskiest of the six" any blows from a mule's belly-strap.
From Time Magazine Archive
Winny, as the family called him, was the huskiest Rockefeller, at 6 ft.
From Time Magazine Archive
He would saddle their huskiest plow horse, ride into town, and shop for everybody.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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