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
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
The title of Laura Marling’s ravishing new song isn’t meant as a descriptor, but rather a note of anguish — like the word “water” as rasped by someone crawling across a desert.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2016
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
“Chilly day,” rasped an old man in a tweed cap.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
