guttural

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Recent Examples of guttural Grief arrives in waves — sometimes in quiet tears, sometimes in guttural sobs, sometimes in the simple, brutal ache of reaching for your phone to text her, only to remember a painstaking reality. Carissa Talmage, People.com, 2 May 2025 In Song of myself, Walt Whitman describes it as the barbaric yawp, which is just this guttural expression of emotion. Outside Online, 9 Apr. 2025 Some people may have been scratching their heads when kids started screaming and crying after seeing a pig wearing a crown; With zombie pig men and skeleton archers riding spiders, why would this specific creature elicit such a guttural reaction? Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025 Her symptoms include vomiting up clots of hair, bile and sewing pins; making scary pronouncements in a guttural voice that is not her own; and being unusually attractive to wasps, whose carcasses litter her bedclothes. Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for guttural
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guttural
Adjective
  • Even if some still lament his distinct hoarse voice and, at times, indifference to showmanship.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 15 May 2025
  • What's Wrong with RFK Jr.'s Voice? Kennedy's voice has been a defining feature of his public appearances for more than a decade, characterized by a strained, hoarse, and tremulous quality.
    Kate Nalepinski, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
Adjective
  • Fred Clemens, the lodge owner, told us that a few big bass had been caught in Grassy Bay, also some husky channel cats running to 12 pounds.
    Don Shiner, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2025
  • In a viral TikTok video, a Siberian husky puppy is filmed meeting a kitten for the very first time in his life, and his heartening reaction to the feline has quickly turned him into a social-media sensation.
    Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In the clip, the animals tussle on a bed, Moose making playful growling noises as he and Peach play-fight, Moose using his mouth and Peach giving it all with his paws.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The world's complex environmental issues demand open minds, fresh perspectives, and less growling.
    Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 22 June 2012
Adjective
  • The rest of the film takes place in a prison, where Henry’s gruff but philosophical cellmate, Gene (Shia LaBeouf), tries to teach him the ways of the world.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Fimmel digs into the more stereotypical gruff bounty hunter with relish, though the character itself is a western staple.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 1 May 2025

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“Guttural.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guttural. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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