Example Sentences

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After the rousing chorus of Anything Goes, she slipped into a slow and smoky Fine and Dandy with a voice which she seemed to have husked up from somewhere in the floor.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was claiming to have husked two cobs to his one, when the dogs started barking savagely.

From On Our Selection by Rudd, Steele