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How to use rasp in a sentence

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Skipping over the scratchy part, she began to sing with the record, her voice throaty, a low rasp.
Then the spectre began to laugh, the noise a deep, ominous rasp which snuffed out the spark of hope that had briefly lit Robert's soul.
She waits for another useless barrage of platitudes and axioms, but all she catches is the harsh rasp of his breathing.
He's six-foot-something but unimposing, his soft voice roughened by a rasp.
Steve heard the rasp of oar-locks and the faint plash of a leisurely moving boat.
Ivan did hear the softest rasp of metal against metal before turning around.
The dog-whelk's radula drills into other animals such as barnacles, while the limpet's is used to rasp algae off rock surfaces.
Four incisions, rasp the bone, drill the holes, hammer plugs through the tissue.
With sandpaper or a rasp, clean off bits of putty which remain on the wood or metal sash.
For deeper cuts the foam can be rough cut to shape with a hobby backsaw and then shaped more with the wood rasp.
The songs shake along quite satisfyingly, as the two guitars rasp out post punk, alt-rock riffs set against solid pulsating basslines.
Wilkes' trademark vocal sound is a dry megaphone rasp, and he alternates it with savage harmonica outbursts.
You probably rasp the soles off their shoes just for fun before they know what's happening.
The harsh hiss of the rasp in her hand provided Alex a safe distraction from the world outside.
To make one, use a hacksaw to sever a section of the main beam, and hollow out the softer center with a rotary rasp.
Using a rasp, zest the meyer lemon into the bowl and add the chopped herbs, anchovy, capers and a few grinds of black pepper.
Use a scraping plane or rasp on cut edges to smooth any roughness.
Most law-abiding people become peevish rather than alarmed when their telephones start to rasp or grow faint in the middle of a conversation.
Alistair uses a rasp to smooth down the ends of the ribs above the gunwales.
To reduce this level you can first rub down the beam under the butting clip with a wood rasp or chisel.
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The rasp of his own 'grayback' shirt and the squeak of his boots seemed to bring him to himself.
You play like an angel on that mouth harp of yores, Sam, but you talk like a rasp.
Like the rasp of a corncrake she heard the wheels of the barouche on the gravel.
But why rasp your nerves and spoil your digestion by so fuming over their politics?
But neither Gregory nor Dickie Lang heard the rasp of the starting mechanism.
The rasp of the hand-saw informed him that he had been obeyed.
Chance for me to rasp him, hey, by wishing you onto the family?
The roots are washed, and reduced to a pulp by means of a rasp or grater.
His voice had the heavy, throaty rasp characteristic of the Martian.
His throat was like sandpaper and the words came out in a rasp.
Waking or sleeping it was always with me, whirring and jarring across my heart-strings like an enormous rasp.
She could hear the long hairs rasp on his shimmery shoulder-plates.
Then there's Pacino's singing voice, a death rattle that makes even Bob Dylan's rasp sound like softly billowing silk.
Again she heard the rasp of his metallic voice with its brisk derision.
Instantly, with a rasp of thunder, it was gone, and the air was stifling.
The Youth Starter Kit includes the Basic Double Reed Diaphragm, a clear call with little to no rasp, and the Double V, which creates a more raspy quality.
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