rasp
verb (used with object)
to scrape or abrade with a rough instrument.
Example Sentences
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Elordi’s voice rasps with a powerful interior dialogue that narrates the latter part of the 149-minute movie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025
“I need to talk to you,” Biden rasps, then battling COVID-19.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2025
In the video, released on Monday, a clearly distressed Muonagor, rasps in the Igbo language: "Igbo people, I greet you all."
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2024
Vocally, the division of labor is pretty straightforward: Paak rasps through his verses with unrelenting wink-wink, then Mars soars through the refrains.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2021
“Asheville is the last safe haven in the East,” the man replied, his words barely perceptible now, nothing but dry, faint rasps.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
