rasped
Example Sentences
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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
And while the words were clear, they matched his expression, as if each one was rasped with a rough file before it left his mouth.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
