rasp

It’s a light mist, then a transparent tone; a crude rasp, then soft and broken or boldly ringing and round, and often many of the above within a single song.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

But dig deeper, and one will find that Tyler’s discography is brimming with hits that put her unmistakable rasp to thrilling use.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

To play Springsteen, White studied hundreds of archive videos to capture the singer's characteristic New Jersey rasp and athletic stage moves.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2025

She matched Winehouse’s signature jazzy tone, but doesn’t have the low register rasp that made Winehouse’s voice unique.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024

She stared at her son, who was beginning to rasp one paw against the other.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Elordi’s voice rasps with a powerful interior dialogue that narrates the latter part of the 149-minute movie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025

“I need to talk to you,” Biden rasps, then battling COVID-19.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2025

In the video, released on Monday, a clearly distressed Muonagor, rasps in the Igbo language: "Igbo people, I greet you all."

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2024

Vocally, the division of labor is pretty straightforward: Paak rasps through his verses with unrelenting wink-wink, then Mars soars through the refrains.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2021

Then a voice rasps, "That's just a kid up there!"

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

Hospitalized and on oxygen, Linderman cut a grainy video in which he rasped out “this is how bad it is,” then admitted he had made a catastrophic error by not getting vaccinated.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2021

Jackson, perhaps unable to leave her character's acrimony at the stage door, foiled my attempts to understand how she made sense of A's changing relationship to B and C. "What relationship?" she rasped.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2018

In the ambulance, in her husband’s arms, she rasped out with her last breath the words: “Phil … I love you, Phil.”

From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2016

So rasped the great Janis Joplin in 1971, another age of social protest.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2015

His voice rasped, and his face convulsed, a grunt of pain.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Vinicius, who excelled in Madrid's 6-1 Champions League rout of Monaco in midweek, also came close with a rasping effort that sailed across Luiz Junior's goal and wide.

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

After 20 deliveries – 19 from Rabada – Khawaja was squared up by a rasping ball which angled in at him on a fourth-stump line.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2025

On Saturday, however, all three of his goals came from open play – including a rasping long-range drive in the second half to complete his hat-trick.

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2025

What endures is the rasping byplay, the soaring exasperation, the tango of opposing temperaments finding fleeting common ground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024

The banshee made a rasping noise and clutched her throat; her voice was gone.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling