rasp

Example Sentences

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“I know,” she says, her voice a quiet rasp.

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But it was another sound that turned my blood to water: the strangling, grating rasp of Mary’s breathing.

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He could still feel the slap of the river, and hear his rasping breath – but his eyes were open and staring, and he couldn’t see.

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He began to drive the iron back and forth, the electric cord rasping against the hook it was strung through near the ceiling.

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I must have drifted off despite the rasping noises around me, because Baby Joe was suddenly pulling at my hand.

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