Words similar to breathy

Example sentences for: breathy

How can you use “breathy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

You lower your voice, pull it back into your throat so that it's breathy, verging on a rasp and yet smooth, almost plangent, then expel the line from The Outlaw
A breathy ex-prostitute now going to seed, she bathes Harry, controls the light in his room, and warns him off relations with "sluts" while hovering inches from his face in low-cut nighties.
(There is one small diversion in the monologue: Whenever Starr quotes from President Clinton's testimony, he drops his voice a register and makes it breathy.
Do I get it when “I shall not want,” four simple one-syllable words, swaying in iambic rhythm, with the shall sliding irresistibly into the breathy w of want calling up the memory of God's “breathing the breath of life” [Genesis 2:7] and man becoming a “living soul” is “improved” to “I shall lack nothing” with its jagged k sound, its materialistic, vacuous nothing , or changed to “I have everything I need” to which “Well, whad-daya know!”