Example Sentences

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They sang “Don’t Stop Believin’” in the fourth quarter as throatily as they could.

From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2021

The play’s star and reason for being remains the expatriate American actress Sandra Dickinson, who amends her own signature vocal squeal to cut a throatily engaging figure as the backgammon-loving Ball.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2017

In a blue rowhouse in the District’s Eastern Market, Tiara is wiggling her hips and singing along throatily with 21 other black youths.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2017

Thomas laughs throatily, rubbing the tattoos on his heavily muscled upper arms as if reassuring himself that those changed perceptions, since he came out publicly last December, have been mostly positive.

From The Guardian • May 3, 2010

Dimple glanced over her shoulder and saw Celia deep in conversation with one of the hipster-model boys, tossing her curls and laughing throatily at a joke.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon