hoarse
adjective
having a vocal tone characterized by weakness of intensity and excessive breathiness; husky.
hoarsest
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superlativeof hoarse.superlative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating the greatest degree of a quality.
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
“I demand that you immediately get off that toadstool!” cried Grandpa Croaker in his hoarsest voice, so that it sounded like distant thunder.
From Bully and Bawly No-Tail by Louis Wisa
The hoarsest note of M. De Banville’s lyre is that discordant one struck in the “Idylles Prussiennes.”
From Essays in Little by Andrew Lang
Into that seething rapid the steed had launched himself—where the spume was whitest, and the rocks gave out their hoarsest echoes.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid
"That's a Blazing strange answer, too," said he, at his hoarsest.
From A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
