guttural
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Zhao has been signaling this moment from the start of the film, and when Hamnet’s bright, earnest voice is replaced by Buckley’s full-bodied, guttural wail, it’s nearly impossible to stay stone-faced.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025
He has a few moments that play so close to comedy — say, whining to be let into the bathroom — that you wish the movie would do more to encourage our pained, guttural laughs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
He had this guttural, old-guy Boston Irish laugh.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
The guttural emotion following Sunday's winning putt was McIlroy shedding the weight of burden which had laid heavy.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2025
It was building up in his chest, that long guttural howl reserved for real emergencies—like when you ran into a saber-toothed tiger without your club, or your fire went out during the Ice Age.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
Vocabulary lists containing guttural
The Devil's Arithmetic
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