Example Sentences

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Just as the genre was moving toward polished sheen, he preferred iron and concrete — rapping with a muscular throatiness that conveyed an excitable kind of mayhem.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2021

Micaela Carosi’s voice has the measure of the title role but tends toward throatiness and is not always precisely deployed.

From New York Times • May 4, 2010

Rated by many as the best French chanteuse since Yvette Guilbert and Lucienne Boyer, she sings with a feline throatiness and great stylistic elegance.

From Time Magazine Archive

The womanly throatiness can break, like a child's heart, three or four times in a single syllable.

From Time Magazine Archive

His eyes began to glow and his voice took on the throatiness he used in sermons.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck