rasp

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

Her voice remains a strong point - resonant and flexible, with a hint of the rasp she inherited from her father, Albanian rock singer Dukajin Lipa.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025

She matched Winehouse’s signature jazzy tone, but doesn’t have the low register rasp that made Winehouse’s voice unique.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024

"Until now," the Hound said in his deep rasp, and Ser Boros fell silent.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

Incontinent, choking out guttural noises between painful rasps, he could be any terminal patient.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023

“I know someone is there with you,” Lourdes rasps.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

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

As I rasped Parmesan over top, he would beam as if it were his first glimpse of snow.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 24, 2020

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

The dry earth was ticking under the sun and the crickets rasped.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Following a surging run from midfielder Pavel Sulc, the 19-year-old Brazilian burst through a challenge before unleashing a rasping drive from the edge of the box to open the scoring in the 80th minute.

From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026

Skipper Alejandro Grimaldo's rasping strike and Patrik Schick's towering second half header gave Leverkusen a shock victory.

From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025

On Saturday, however, all three of his goals came from open play – including a rasping long-range drive in the second half to complete his hat-trick.

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 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

Peregrine called through the smoke in her rasping, broken-toothed voice.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi