Example Sentences
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Hospitalized and on oxygen, Linderman cut a grainy video in which he rasped out “this is how bad it is,” then admitted he had made a catastrophic error by not getting vaccinated.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2021
Jackson, perhaps unable to leave her character's acrimony at the stage door, foiled my attempts to understand how she made sense of A's changing relationship to B and C. "What relationship?" she rasped.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2018
I fetched one from the shed, then held the donkey’s legs as Scott sawed the hooves until they were short enough to be clipped and rasped down with a file.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2016
In the ambulance, in her husband’s arms, she rasped out with her last breath the words: “Phil … I love you, Phil.”
From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2016
Iron fingers caught her by the wrist before she could fall, and a deep voice rasped at her.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
