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• His character was a husky taur with dark red fur.From the entry taur
• “You’ve kept me waiting, Jonas,” a woman complained in a low, husky voice.2025 June 23 [2024], Hisaya Amagishi, translated by A.M. Cola, “Jonas the Bodyguard’s Hot Night”, in Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh…. From the entry orchidea
• Used as a contact and alarm call, the muffled raab is like a muttered, husky quack.2019, Adrian Thomas, RSPB Guide to Birdsong, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry raab
• Her voice was husky with emotion and her eyes were tear-brimmed.2014, Margaret Sunley, Sons of Toil. From the entry tear-brimmed
• Husky fans knew him as a hard driver with the speed of a gazelle.2013, W. Thomas Porter, Go Huskies!: Celebrating the Washington Football Tradition, Triumph Books (IL), →ISBN, page 53. From the entry provo
• She is a towering girl with a husky baritone voice and a friendly and flamboyant style.1964, Look, volume 28, page 338. From the entry towering
• With a husky voice she murmured that he was the very dearest grandfather anyone ever had.1942, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter 7, in The Robe. From the entry murmur
• His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 1, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN. From the entry fractiousness
• "You are a leddy now, Elspeth," Aaron said, husky with pride, "and you have a leddy's room."1912, J.M. Barrie, Tommy and Grizel. From the entry leddy
• At 20 pounds, Jimmy Kibble is a lovable, beautiful pomsky — a cross between a Pomeranian and a husky.2023 January 27, Patrick Connolly, “Meet the Orlando rescue dogs playing in Puppy Bowl XIX”, in Orlando Sentinel. From the entry lovable
• The two men were husky, picked for their brawn by the little man who sauntered into the room.2008, Michael Mandaville, Stealing Thunder, Dog Ear Publishing, published 2008, →ISBN, page 562. From the entry brawn
• At 4D, husky boys Roman Ricardo, Ford Croell, Doug E.1986 December, Melik Kaylan, “Downtown: It's Like You Know...”, in Spy, page 53. From the entry underattended
• I'd like to mt you if you're a bearded ‘Teddy Bear,’ husky build, under 34 & share a career orientation.1980 August 9, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14. From the entry teddy bear
• "Mornin', Tom," he said in a husky voice.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry head
• They installed a nativity scene, models of Father Christmas, and a sleigh driven by huskies, and Christmas trees were placed around the station.2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent Lines …”, in Rail, number 999, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29. From the entry Christmas tree
• After bathing, he sat on his bed and wished desperately that he could forget the night's illusion of tangled legs, palmable breasts, and husky laughs.2014, Katherine Woodbury, Richard: The Ethics of Affection, page 13. From the entry palmable
• The other-worldly silence was now filled by the tsaritsa, and she spoke in a husky, almost hoarse voice: ‘You will come back.2014, Aleksandar Gatalica, translated by Will Firth, “[1917 – the Year of the Tsar] Betrayal, Cowardice and Lies”, in The Great War…. From the entry Vladimirovich
• In her early forties, her grey hair cropped and brushed forward Soviet-style, her voice husky and commanding, she stands and offers her hand.2011, David Nicholls, One Day, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry Woolfish
• Nadezhda Osipovna’s singing reminded Vasily Lvovich of the husky songs of gypsies and swarthy pharaohesses, not the songs of fair ladies, and pleased him greatly.2007, Young Pushkin: A Novel, translation of original by Tynyanov, Yury, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry pharaohess
• Burk replied in his husky Dalek voice without looking at the King but also without any trepidation: 'I was christened Herbert Burk.'1982, Jakov Lind, Travels to the Enu: Story of a Shipwreck, page 60. From the entry Dalek voice
• He was a student at Notre Dame, a robust Joe-College kind of kid, husky and tall and always dressed in plus-four knickers.1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Them First Kicks are a Killer”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2…. From the entry knickers
• The lantern got closer until eventually the sound, smell and heat of dogs was upon them, and a train of huskies stopped in a great cloud of steam.2022, Jacques Peretti, Little Bird of Auschwitz. From the entry charabanc
• A flattened stone for knife . . . a pointed piece of wood for fork—and any deficits in mealtime satisfaction were remedied by husky fingers and thumbs.1939 July 24, Caleb, “The ABC’s of Silver”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume XCVIII, number 175, page 4, column 1. From the entry utensilry
• At the man’s heels trotted a dog, a big native husky, the proper wolf-dog, grey-coated and without any visible or temperamental difference from its brother, the wild wolf.1908, Jack London, “To Build a Fire”, in Lost Face. From the entry wolf dog
• Peaches—who usually raps her lyrics in husky tones—also reveals she has one helluva set of pipes, belting out "Talk to Me" with enough power to give any disco diva pause.2009, Darryl Sterdan, "Peaches pushing the boundaries," Jam! Showbiz at canoe.ca, 18 May (retrieved 25 May 2009). From the entry set of pipes
• "Where I went wrong," he said, still speaking in that low, husky voice as if he had been a ghost suffering from catarrh, "was in getting engaged to Phyllis Mills."1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry catarrh
• Are you looking for a lathe loaded down with a lot of "jim-cracks" and "flap doodles," or do you want a husky, easily handled tool without a dngle useless feature?1914, American Machinist - Volume 40, page 203. From the entry flap doodle

Meaning of husky

1. adjective Of a voice, hoarse and rough-sounding; throaty.
2. adjective Burly, stout; sometimes as a modifier for boys' clothing sizes that fit a large waist or chest.
3. adjective Abounding with husks; consisting of husks.

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How do you use husky in a sentence?

Husky is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “His character was a husky taur with dark red fur.”

What is a short sentence with husky?

“"Mornin', Tom," he said in a husky voice.”

What does husky mean?

Husky means of a voice, hoarse and rough-sounding; throaty.