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How to use hoarse in a sentence

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He croaked, his voice hoarse with the dampness, as a pitter-patter of soft raindrops danced over their heads.
Deep within a nest cavity near the top of the tree, the pair's two chicks uttered hoarse coos, begging for food.
A hoarse yell broke forth from some of the celebrants, a sign that her words were taking effect.
Strenuous fireworks, hoarse violin figures and a quietly threnodic contemplation are all there.
My thoughts, however, stubbornly refused to cling to the issue and when a hoarse croak broke loose from high above me, I started violently.
Bloom's voice was too hoarse for the scream and the words left his throat in a painful screech.
He winced as if the words were somehow painful, and when he spoke, it was in a hoarse croak.
I tried to sound in control and normal but all I could manage were hoarse croaks.
Last night I took to my bed at the early hour of eight, and spent a hoarse night waking a lot and feeling crampy and sorry for myself.
The old man's breathing was becoming more irregular, reduced only to hoarse rasps.
Maybe it was the tinny glint from the knife or the sound of her hoarse whimpers but something made him act.
Her eyes widened and she wanted to scream, but her throat was suddenly dry and only a hoarse croak escaped her throat.
Children should not cry during the night though, because a duppy might steal the infant's voice, making it hoarse the next day.
The voice was deep and gravelly as if the person had a sore throat and was hoarse.
His voice was hoarse and his neck hurt as he tried to look over at his father.
The fulvous whistling-duck's name comes from the hoarse whistling sound it makes and from its coloring.
Then suddenly, in a slightly hoarse and off-key voice, he sang the lullaby that Mom used to sing to me.
Mrs. Leander went on in her hoarse voice, one that tells of her motherhood.
I have a lad driving the oxen with a goad, who is now hoarse because of the cold and from shouting.
He had shouted out the window until his voice had gone hoarse, which hadn't taken long.
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The fisherman, benumbed by the cold night air, replied in a hoarse voice, asking what they wanted of him.
I feel for the lost soul in the House of Lords who shouts himself hoarse in a lost cause.
His mirth was hoarse and ghastly, like a raven's croak, and the sick wolf joined him, howling lugubriously.
Some were uncoupling the dogs, whose hoarse, savage bay added not a little to the animation of the scene.
Back and forth over the battle field flew countless birds of gorgeous plumage, squawking their hoarse cries of rage and defiance.
Meantime she talked in a hoarse tone of the political situation in the Balkans.
These are dingy, screeching elves, their tiny faces seared and withered, their baby laughter cracked and hoarse.
Finally, they settled upon a Circe less besieged of the hoarse and grunting mob.
Myriads of hoarse cries, forming one vast uproar, were heard, mingled with guns firing.
She came churning along, now, making a deal of noise of one kind or another, and aggravating it every now and then by blowing a hoarse whistle.
I heard a sound like the flutter of a bird's wings, and a hoarse croaking, but that was all.
It shivered in the chill morning wind, and grinned dispiritedly when the man spoke to it in a voice that achieved no more than a hoarse whisper.
At that I opened my mouth to speak, and found a hoarse phlegm choked my voice.
Smouch, who was troubled with a hoarse cough, remained below, and expectorated in the passage.
Theseus even fancied a rude articulation in it, as if the creature that uttered it were trying to shape his hoarse breath into words.
A sharp, hoarse cry of animal pain came from the enclosure behind us.
Their eyes burned and a hoarse cheer of elation broke from their dry lips.
He swung his long arms backward and forwards, cracking his fingers, and talked unintelligibly to himself, hoarse, guttural murmurings without sense or import.
Galazi lives yet, for still there comes the sound of the Watcher as it thunders on the shields, and the Wolf's hoarse cry of the number of the slain.
The mob cheered and yelled themselves hoarse at this even marksmanship.
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