scratchy
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Since the fire, residents have reported experiencing scratchy throats, headaches and nausea because of the ongoing smell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Having looked scratchy early on, Dunkley found her groove by slogging Kathryn Bryce over mid-wicket for six in the third over.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
In a weak and scratchy voice, she tells the BBC that when that happens there is only one option left - to walk into the scrubland to search for food.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026
During that broadcast she told viewers that her “voice has been very scratchy and started to crack a little bit.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026
“Let me tell you how it is,” Styx said, his voice as scratchy as gravel.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
If his most recent news conference is any indication, those may become scratchier.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2021
“Got any kids?” he asked, his scratchy voice even scratchier than usual.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2018
Meanwhile, both speaking and singing, her voice was considerably lower, huskier and scratchier than it had been during “Auld Lang Syne.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2017
The Italian has become the second Ireland manager to lead the nation to the European Championship and the squad that he has here in Poland is indisputably of scratchier quality.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2012
“Let me go,” Tobias says, and he sounds scratchier than before.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
“I’ve always enjoyed playing against the Rays just because they were the toughest, scratchiest team we played against and now I’m on the other side of it. I’m ready to go.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2021
He may have got the top score, narrowly, but it was the scratchiest of innings.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2019
Events through the summer on Governors Island and at the Governors Club Verboten’s stageONE Verboten’s four-part series of parties in Bushwick Inlet Park will make even the chin scratchiest of dance music devotees happy.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2015
The bonus point Gloucester secured with an injury-time consolatory try ranked among the scratchiest in the competition's history.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2010
Hadn't he pulled off races on the scratchiest of polo ponies, when he couldn't afford better, out of sheer intention?
From The Dark Tower by J. H. Gardner Soper
