guttural

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Recent Examples of guttural Bronze hammered the ball into the back of the net and let out a guttural roar. Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025 The screams, the reason everyone assembles, when the screams come, after a few collective inhales and exhales and a moment to gather one’s thoughts, the screams come like long guttural howls. Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025 After about an hour of following bushwhacking guides and slipping over an elephant trail twisting through the undergrowth, trumpets and guttural grunts pierced through the silence. Chris Schalkx, AFAR Media, 20 Aug. 2025 In contrast, Cash Money’s rise came amid No Limit’s peak, continuing to put New Orleans on the map while furthering the guttural, melodic sound the city has come to be known for. Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for guttural
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guttural
Adjective
  • When a reporter reached her by phone a week later, her voice sounded hoarse.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Give Palestine your voice, and when your voice goes hoarse, hang your flags, wear your keffiyeh.
    Thomas Smith, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Athena, who was born in April, is a shepsky mix, half husky and half German shepherd.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • One of Lipa’s most significant attributes is the husky tone of her mezzo-soprano, lending a gritty roughness to her songs’ pop polish.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 5 Oct. 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
  • Sometimes animatronic and growling, sometimes staring out dead-eyed, classic and static.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2022
Adjective
  • But encounters with the island’s residents, including with his gruff but warm-hearted landlady (played by German screen legend Hanna Schygulla), gradually alter his outlook.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Panday plays a convincingly gruff tortured artist alongside Padda’s struggling ingenue, and most of the screen time is devoted to their pairing instead of introducing tertiary excess.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Guttural.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guttural. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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