Examples of raspy in a Sentence
Her voice was raspy from yelling so much.
overwork tends to make him raspy
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At the war’s conclusion, the 86-year-old Khamenei emerged from hiding to declare victory in a raspy voice—a spectacle meant to project strength that instead underscored the regime’s frailty.
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Karim Sadjadpour, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2025
In 2021, Emily started asking her then 2-year-old daughter the question on camera, capturing the tot’s adorable responses in her now recognizable raspy voice.
—Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
The song originally appeared on Sweet Revenge, with Prine’s raspy voice belting it out over a bump-and-grind arrangement played by a full band.
—Tom Piazza
september 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
This is why Dijon’s language works best as sound, not narrative—his rangy, raspy voice seethes and triumphs, mocks and threatens; there’s no world in which his polygonal perspective can be discerned from a lyric sheet.
—Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2025
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Karim Sadjadpour, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2025
In 2021, Emily started asking her then 2-year-old daughter the question on camera, capturing the tot’s adorable responses in her now recognizable raspy voice.
—Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
The song originally appeared on Sweet Revenge, with Prine’s raspy voice belting it out over a bump-and-grind arrangement played by a full band.
—Tom Piazza
september 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
This is why Dijon’s language works best as sound, not narrative—his rangy, raspy voice seethes and triumphs, mocks and threatens; there’s no world in which his polygonal perspective can be discerned from a lyric sheet.
—Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2025
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“Raspy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/raspy. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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