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Meanings of scratchy in inglês
Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.
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Sinônimos
Examples for "rough"
Examples for "rough"
1
After a rough start to trading this year, market returns have improved.
2
Each team wanted to end a rough week on a good note.
3
It's been a rough year for erstwhile electric car company Faraday Future.
4
However, data showed there is a rough road ahead for corporate earnings.
5
In fact, on a rough day I enjoyed the sea even more.
1
The voids in the sand grit and gravel were 27 per cent.
2
I followed a gravel driveway along the left side of the building.
3
There; you can hear the wheels of his gig on the gravel.
4
Oh, and the gravel strip under the windows is a good idea.
5
I can feel it, Alick had said, his voice gravel-donot appear.
1
The oval contains an internal grating that drifts from right to left.
2
When the song finished, she crept to the grating and looked in.
3
Slidell looked so glum, I let the grating command pass without comment.
4
The grating of the outlet from the sewer was not far off.
5
Only the grating of Mr. Amherst's bits of china mars the stillness.
1
It was the Chancellor who spoke first, in his high rasping creak.
2
It was an unpleasant rasping noise that grew stronger minute by minute.
3
Montgomery looked up, for the voice was a loud and rasping one.
4
Another actor had had a tracheotomy and spoke in a rasping growl.
5
His finger passed over the shaded skin with a disagreeable, rasping sound.
1
But we gained a gravelly tone that made friends' poetry recitations bearable.
2
Since it pays to be hypocritical, I spoke up with gravelly respect.
3
It is hardy, and grows freely in rather sandy or gravelly soil.
4
Biancullo has the gravelly voice one would expect of a sports handicapper.
5
A quick response, a gravelly voice: Cross F Street to Judiciary Square.
1
Linda Hamilton laughs the way Courtney Love sings, with great raspy bravado.
2
I thought I detected more concern than contempt in her raspy voice.
3
You're a good girl, aren't you, Maeve Callahan? His voice was raspy.
4
Then he took it, and he said in a raspy voice, Okay.
5
Suddenly, Tamara's raspy voice echoes across the timber floors of the warehouse.
Usage of scratchy in inglês
1
Partial sightings, fragmentary reports, scratchy CCTV images... What are you doing here?'
2
I remember the little scratchy blot from the pen on the envelope.
3
Though the voice was thin and scratchy, the words were clearly audible.
4
I feel that when I do that myself I get really scratchy.
5
But a hot, scratchy rope knotted around her heart, pulling her forward.
6
Thayer nods and I switch the radio to a scratchy jazz station.
7
Pohjanen's voice on the other end of the phone, scratchy and rattling.
8
There was a scratchy delay over the transmission and then it cleared.
9
The green train had compartments, dusty scratchy seats, polished wood panels overhead.
10
Simon Katich played with the neurotic, scratchy intensity of a post-punk frontman.
11
Sometimes they had a machine that made scratchy music with tinny singing.
12
Fitch's thumbs made soft, scratchy sounds against the edge of the tray.
13
Eventually she hears a faint sound, a scratchy squeak, and looks up.
14
Leaves cascaded through the cemetery, crackling and rustling, like dry scratchy paws.
15
The scratchy creak-creak-creak of the rocker kept her company in the quiet.
16
He jumped, falling through scratchy branches into a soft mattress of mud.
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Scratchy across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common