hoarsest
- superlative of hoarse.
Example Sentences
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Soon, she would be holding Luna’s hand for the last time, touching her face for the last time—speaking her words of love in the hoarsest of whispers.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
Trek!” cried Joeboy in his hoarsest voice, and he ran from me towards the foreloper, leaving me half-stunned at the turn matters had taken.
From Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer by Fenn, George Manville
The hoarsest note of M. De Banville’s lyre is that discordant one struck in the “Idylles Prussiennes.”
From Essays in Little by Lang, Andrew
We see and hear the past through a distance which reduces all its inequalities to a plane, mellows all its shades into a pleasing hue, and subdues even its hoarsest voices into harmony.
From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by Dickey, J. M. (John Marcus)
This roused the sleeper, who, half groaning, and puffing the air through his nostrils, grumbled out, in the hoarsest voice that I ever heard, and in a tone of surly impatience, "Who is there?"
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden
