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

As I rasped Parmesan over top, he would beam as if it were his first glimpse of snow.

From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2020

“Testes, testes, one, two, three!” a voice rasped over the sound system in a cheeky Southern drawl.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2018

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

She put the phone to her ear, her voice rasped.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi