How to Use rasp in a Sentence

rasp

noun

• Kidd is back to work, though with just a soft rasp of a voice.
  — Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, 31 Mar. 2020
• The bits where her voice starts cracking and the rasp comes out?
  — Megan Buerger, Billboard, 17 May 2018
• The only sound the dog could be said to produce was the low rasp of the chain against cement.
  — Han Kang, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• As Kitchens talked to the media, his voice was sometimes a rasp.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 29 Dec. 2019
• Throughout the day, Garland spoke in low tones, with a slight rasp to his voice.
  — Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2021
• Not the way Rivers’ voice, usually worn down to a rasp by April, feels great.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2020
• Shape on a lathe, or with a spokeshave or surform rasp.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 24 Apr. 2021
• The crosscut made a sudden rasp, and the vibration in the handle changed.
  — John Jeremiah Sullivan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2019
• John is jealous that someone with such a rasp has so much range.
  — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• Christine has a cool rasp that sets her apart from other singers.
  — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2021
• Her own voice is a taut, lived-in soprano that can take on a flutter or a rasp.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2016
• Well, Chayce certainly has the rasp to pull off this Bryan Adams classic.
  — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2021
• Bella is pure and crystal clear, while Katie has a cool rasp and an edge to her vocals.
  — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2021
• While the sharp rasp of a cat’s lick is no mystery, the hollow nature of some of the cones on the tongue surface is new to science.
  — Alison MacKey, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2018
• Biden took his place and removed his mask and began to speak in a voice that was just above a whisper and with a bit of a rasp.
  — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2021
• Blunt, 38, has this past year to thank for the fear that every little rasp or wheeze could be a sign of the pandemic.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 14 May 2021
• The juice of the grapes is macerated with the skins, which provide a tinge of color and a mild rasp of tannin.
  — New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
• Burgholzer met the three of us in a treatment room and spoke with a rasp—the only outward sign of his disease.
  — Charles Schmidt, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2019
• To give the bench an aged appearance, use a rasp or sanding block to rub through the paint along the lower edges of the legs' corners.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2020
• There's a lot of passion in this performance, and his rasp is used to full effect.
  — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 24 May 2021
• Cara has a soothing, pretty voice while Jay is all power and rasp.
  — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2022
• His fizzy rasp certainly evokes the sound on the early albums.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 21 Oct. 2021
• They were said in a rasp, too, as the veteran coach had to shout in a manner he wasn’t accustomed to in a long while.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 16 May 2021
• His forte was toe-tapping waltzes, and his voice recalled the rich rasp of Van Morrison.
  — Jeff Milo, Detroit Free Press, 21 Sep. 2017
• Thick, cold air would slow the tremor of vocal cords and the speed of sound itself, deepening your voice and giving it a rasp.
  — Popular Science, 26 Jan. 2020
• Stewart’s signature rasp broke out as a staple of The Jeff Beck Group.
  — USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
• Even the barely audible rasp of the bow’s hair across a string can conjure the intimate shape of a last breath.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
• Wallen's voice is as much rock as country, arriving with a grunge rasp.
  — Jon Pareles New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 Jan. 2021
• Johnson has a layered rasp of a voice that echoes several greats, from George Jones to Randy Travis.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2018
• The Rise of Gru soundtrack, thanks largely to Clark’s singular rasp.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 6 July 2022

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