Example Sentences

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“She is my queen,” Jon says, huskily, being an idiot.

From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019

Hunter responds, huskily and urgently, a tear forming in her eye, "No, it's awful."

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2018

Ray Davies of the Kinks saw her live and came backstage expressly to tell her he thought her songs, sung in a rich, huskily emotive voice that belies her years, were "hauntingly beautiful".

From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2013

Although he fronts a rock band in his spare time, Mr. Crowe huskily declaims his way through his songs, never making anything resembling an appealing sound.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2013

He cupped his hand and called huskily, “Hey!”

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck