Etymology
Origin of burred
Example Sentences
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The patter, delivered in Mr. Silven’s smooth, slightly burred voice, is a little pat, as when he intones, “By coincidence, by fate, by destiny, a group of you have come together to predict the improbable.”
From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2017
Camera shutters burred; the guizers yelled; and the longship, traveling in the opposite direction, scythed through the fire like a ghostly spectre.
From Slate • Oct. 30, 2015
Mr. Starr has a skinny, burred voice that sounds as if he were quivering, and when the guitarist Paul Jackson chimes in with high harmony vocals, as on “Six Ways to Sunday,” it’s bracing.
From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2012
They compose their own songs, sing them in soft, burred voices, and ac company themselves on a bewildering array of instruments: guitars, whistles, sitars, ouds, organs, harmonicas, violins and gimbris.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a deep note of loving them in his voice, rough and burred though it was, as Potch spoke to the goats.
From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah
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