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How to use rasping in a sentence

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Lamontagne's voice is strong but with a quaver and a dry, rasping quality that hints at an inside breakability.
Her breath was rasping now, and he could hear the pain in her voice when she spoke.
Her ears twisted until they stuck out sideways, she took several rasping breaths.
Sara ran as fast as she could, her breath rasping in her throat and blood pounding in her ears.
Lilly snickered, her breath rasping and grating as she tried to move her head closer to her mistress.
The flight station was instantly filled with a deafening, rasping, angry noise, as if a chainsaw had been started at full throttle.
Her eyes were closed, mouth hanging open just slightly with her harsh breath rasping steadily.
Any flares present at this time are removed by rasping the lower part of the hoof wall from the outside.
Most chitons feed by rasping algae and other encrusted food off of the rocks on which they crawl.
A hard rasping sound from around the corner caused him to drop into a tiger stance, arms hard and lithe.
I just opened my mouth to try and speak and all that I could manage was a rasping croak.
Rich made a rasping sound in his throat vaguely like the creaking of bed springs, followed by a lewd slurping noise.
Then the restrained growl of a mad dog found its way past her curled lips, rasping at the stranger before her who hadn't flinched.
The top of the thumb is covered with nose friendly fabric so you can swipe away those tickles without rasping your shnoz.
Meniscal injuries were treated arthroscopically by rasping, suturing, or partial meniscectomy, according to the size and location of the lesion.
They will keep out the growling, rasping or fluty snoring sounds from the ears of bedfellows and allow them to sleep peacefully.
For all his charm, his generosity, that deep, rasping cackle that rumbles through his conversation, he has a sharp edge.
Besides the rasping Cobain-like vocals any other trace of the alt-rock anthem of yesterday has all but faded.
They sing a discordant series of sounds that can be alternately tuneful and rasping.
When a breaking ball fell to the full forward his rasping shot came off the crossbar but he was alert to fist the rebound to the net.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He could hear a faint rasping like the rustle of sandpaper, as they did so.
This is done by simply rasping down the potatoes over a seirce, and passing a current of water over the raspings.
With the bell carefully tucked under his oxter he gave forth his news in a rasping voice that broke now and again into a squeal.
On the night of the third day the weather cleared and settled, cold and rasping.
It was brisk and rasping, and the lips through which it passed were curved in scorn.
That same line you advised, has got three as rasping fences as I should like to meet with.
During the second day her burro gave a rasping bray, and a hee-haw answered from the bush.
We have a phonograph with a rasping voice that plays from morning to night.
When it misled him, the rasping rock groaned out, scarring the submarine's smooth skin.
Then right under me commenced a vehement rasping and scratching in the floor, accompanied by continuous groans and cachinnation.
Only an occasional rasping cough testified to their presence.
The drone of his voice had a strangely rasping, soulless ring.
This is called the radula, and is used for tearing or rasping the food.
I went into the glade with a dry tongue rasping on the roof of my mouth.
He heard the songs peculiar to busy toilers, a murmur of many workshops, the rasping of files, and the sound of falling hammers.
There were spluttering and bubbling, jerking and rasping, whistling and screaming.
I rolled about in the dry leaves, playing with them and making crooning, rasping noises in my throat.
A rasping sound, like the filing of a saw, came from the tin roof.
Its futile pretentiousness is the rasping irritation of every hour.
The goal came from a corner kick after Shaun Marshall touched over a rasping 25 yard drive from Icelander Brynjar Gunnarsson.
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