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Outside a metro station, 18-year-old high school students Tomas Hernanz and Martin Pena still had hoarse voices after hours of chanting.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

But the most notable aspect of the president’s hoarse and breathy address was what he didn’t say.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

The group’s primal musical stew came from thoroughly American ingredients: ragged blues, chugging rock, narcotic country and hoarse soul.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

“I still recorded the show with my very hoarse voice, but then put the AI voice over that, telling the audience from the very beginning, I’m sick,” Mandy said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025

“Don’t bother coming back to the theater,” she said, her voice low and hoarse from all her shouting.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

But the enthusiasm of the crowd remained undiminished, with fans staying on their feet and singing, their voices growing hoarser, through all nine innings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2018

The young man bemused by the absurdities of civilization comes on now like a comic equivalent of an Old Testament Prophet, harsher and hoarser and invigorated with age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2017

Rufus Sewell stars as Zen, looking very Italian, but sounding exactly like Rufus Sewell, only hoarser.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 3, 2011

Costello winced, and his voice got suddenly hoarser.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the street, the crying woman’s voice rose again and again, hoarser and thinner than the last time.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Soon, she would be holding Luna’s hand for the last time, touching her face for the last time—speaking her words of love in the hoarsest of whispers.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

Jane was recalled from her polite scrutiny of the women at the next table by hearing her name mentioned in Droom's hoarsest voice, modified into something like a whisper.

From Jane Cable by George Barr McCutcheon

Trek!” cried Joeboy in his hoarsest voice, and he ran from me towards the foreloper, leaving me half-stunned at the turn matters had taken.

From Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer by George Manville Fenn

The hoarsest note of M. De Banville’s lyre is that discordant one struck in the “Idylles Prussiennes.”

From Essays in Little by Andrew Lang

Into that seething rapid the steed had launched himself—where the spume was whitest, and the rocks gave out their hoarsest echoes.

From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid