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Example sentences for: rasp

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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.
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
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.