Example Sentences

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She's sucking Strepsils and is rasping away, but then she's another unwilling activist.

From The Guardian • Apr. 3, 2011

If the people raise a howl," red-bearded William Tecumseh Sherman is rasping, "I will answer that war is war and not popularity-seeking.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then presently, when she had finished her tea, she said— "You are absolutely out of gear, Nicholas—Your voice is rasping, your remarks are bitter, and you must be awfully unhappy, poor boy."

From Man and Maid by Glyn, Elinor

If the Val de Pe�as is rasping to his palate, he ignores that the taste for wine, as for olives and Dublin stout and Glenlivat, is acquired.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus

His note is rasping and harsh, in point of melody, when compared with the bobolink's.

From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by Burroughs, John