rasp
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Hopkins’ voice, still deeply familiar as some of film’s most famous characters, including the serial killer Hannibal Lecter and the English butler, James Stevens, from “Remains of the Day,” now has a weathered rasp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
It’s a light mist, then a transparent tone; a crude rasp, then soft and broken or boldly ringing and round, and often many of the above within a single song.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
But dig deeper, and one will find that Tyler’s discography is brimming with hits that put her unmistakable rasp to thrilling use.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
He puts on Lecter's metallic rasp for me and appears to enjoy repeating his character's words to Jodie Foster's Clarice.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2025
His hands rasp like a snake’s coils as he mbs them together.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
Elordi’s voice rasps with a powerful interior dialogue that narrates the latter part of the 149-minute movie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025
“I need to talk to you,” Biden rasps, then battling COVID-19.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2025
In the video, released on Monday, a clearly distressed Muonagor, rasps in the Igbo language: "Igbo people, I greet you all."
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2024
They both had distinct tannic rasps, but it’s hard to fully account for the differences.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2022
“I think you can put it together,” she rasps.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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
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
We stooped over and crossed the garden, where the flowers rasped and rattled against us.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Yasin Ayari set Sweden on their way to a comprehensive win with a rasping shot from 25 yards that arrowed into the corner.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
The 22-year-old took the second opportunity, with a rasping passing shot forcing a deciding set.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2025
After 20 deliveries – 19 from Rabada – Khawaja was squared up by a rasping ball which angled in at him on a fourth-stump line.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2025
What endures is the rasping byplay, the soaring exasperation, the tango of opposing temperaments finding fleeting common ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024
And now a chill settled over them where they stood, and Harry heard the rasping breath of the dementors that patrolled the outer trees.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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