Example Sentences

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Lil Wayne has rasped into life forever what Bryant was about.

From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2020

Every Sunday afternoon since 1941, over city-owned WNYC, the Little Flower has rasped and ricocheted his way through 30 minutes of the most unorthodox chatter on the air.

From Time Magazine Archive

"We really must go," murmurs Giddy hastily, catching her breath as Mr. Grebby lights his pipe with a match he has rasped along his trousers.

From When the Birds Begin to Sing by Piffard, Harold

It is jokingly said that her keel has rasped off the branch coral round all the islands. 

From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)