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

“Their claim was self-defense, sir / Just don’t believe your eyes,” Springsteen sings with his familiar rasp.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026

The new mix showcases the singer's strength as a vocalist - with a tell-tale rasp that catches on the song's message of friendship and solidarity.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2024

Seconds later, sandals rasp on the courtyard stone.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

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

“I don’t know. I’ve been wrestling with why. The World Trade Center was America’s financial engine. The American Dream,” Pop rasps.

From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

"Serve the boar at my funeral feast," Robert rasped.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Raducanu broke Jovic's serve in the fourth game with a blistering forehand and rammed home her advantage by holding serve with another rasping shot into the corner of the court.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

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

Foden's goal - a rasping a low effort into the bottom corner following fine work by team-mate Rayan Cherki - will have impressed the watching Tuchel at Selhurst Park.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 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

I say, leaning over and rasping the edge off a huge toenail.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen