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

At every rasp and bang, another chunk of my courage broke off and I was even more unhappy.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

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

Finally, having run the gantlet of band saws, wood rasps and belt sanders, the mallard is done.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2019

He handed him different old rasps and augers and chisels and files and mallets he’d brought over from England.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

“Be strong, Kii Yazhi,” he rasped, his voice as creaky as an old saddle.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

Raducanu broke Jovic's serve in the fourth game with a blistering forehand and rammed home her advantage by holding serve with another rasping shot into the corner of the court.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Vinicius, who excelled in Madrid's 6-1 Champions League rout of Monaco in midweek, also came close with a rasping effort that sailed across Luiz Junior's goal and wide.

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

New Zealand's batters were then hopping about the crease, as Archer showed his teeth with some rasping short balls.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 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

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

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo