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Example sentences for: rasp

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Citing "the concentration and surprise" of Dylan's lyrics, as well as the "rasp of his anger," Motion rhapsodized over the songwriter's use of language.
It is a thick macedoine of Broad Scots and Ulster English, and it has a harsh and uncompromising rasp to it, especially if you don't understand a word that is being said to you--which, it might be added, is quite often the case if you are a newcomer to that part of the world.
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
Late at night, Wade drinks and holds forth on his suspicions in a low rasp over the phone to his younger brother, Rolfe (Willem Dafoe), a Boston academic who subtly feeds the flames of Wade's alienation.