throaty
adjective
produced or modified in the throat, as certain sounds; guttural, husky, or hoarse.
throatiness
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a word derived from
throaty.
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
