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Meanings of rasping in английском
португальский
grosa испанский
tono áspero Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.
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Synonyms
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
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
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.
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 rasping in английском
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.
6
I demanded, as that brazen voice came rasping through a second verse.
7
I jolted up with a rasping cry, my body alive with apprehension.
8
Maybe it's just the buckles, the bridles-maybe they've been rasping it sore.
9
He began with a rasping chuckle that gradually formed itself into words.
10
And he was busily and unconsciously rasping his fingers along his jaw.
11
Pavel made a rasping sound when he breathed, and he kept moaning.
12
His voice startled me, harsh and rasping like two bricks grating together.
13
Isabel tried to gasp, but succeeded only in producing a rasping wheeze.
14
Accompanying this sound was a loud, whistling breathing, and frequent rasping gasps.
15
Stephen O'Donnell then got in but his rasping drive was tipped over.
16
The Prince knocked, and a rasping woman's voice told him to enter.
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Rasping through the time
Rasping across language varieties
United States of America
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