Example Sentences

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“Before the coronavirus, we sold everything,” Javier said in a raspish, gentle voice.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2020

Explosions Martha Taft, the Senator's wife, sailed into a meeting of Republican women in Philadelphia with a bouquet of raspish phrases.

From Time Magazine Archive

You were hot-headed, and I was ill-tempered and raspish, and so we quarrelled, and you—you, my only brother—sulked with me for six and twenty years.

From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) by Robinson, Frederick William

He was fifty and iron-grey, with whiskers, but no moustache; short, stoutish, raspish.

From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold

And you are such a raspish, ill-conditioned chap that even your own union--the men who know you best--will have nothing to do with you.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur