rasped
Example Sentences
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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
The visitors did not threaten until the 26th minute, when John McGinn ran on to a pass by Jack Grealish and rasped a shot wide from 10 yards under pressure from James Justin.
From The Guardian • Oct. 18, 2020
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
“Poor Ann,” he rasped, referring to Ann Coulter’s new book, “In Trump We Trust.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2016
The air was so cold it rasped in his throat, as cold as a hardened heart.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
