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• He spoke in a rasping voice due to throat cancer.From the entry rasping
• Kennedy’s vocal rasp is not caused by an infection or respiratory condition.2025 January 29, Sandee LaMotte, “A rare brain disorder robbed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of his strong speaking voice”, in CNN. From the entry involuntarily
• “I place a geis upon you, my son,” I rasped, my eyes burning with impending wrath.2016, Yasmine Galenorn, Once Upon A Curse: 17 Dark Faerie Tales, Fiddlehead Press, →ISBN. From the entry geis
• An old man, his chest rasping with saprostomous breath, the cigarette glows in his fingers.2015, Glorianna Langley-Finch, Beyond the Darkness, page 20. From the entry saprostomous
• He was a tall lean man with a voice like a rasping crow.1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1066. From the entry homburg
• In the departure zone he rasped at Lufthansa officials in what seemed very theatrical German.1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 53, in Earthly Powers, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN. From the entry jackbooted
• A belated freshman, his oilskin slicker rasping loudly, slushed along the soft path.1919, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise. From the entry slush
• The bottle cap rasped as she unscrewed it and glugged some Bailey's into her mug, the spoon tinkling as she stirred.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 281. From the entry glug
• Myhill gets fingertips onto it and helps the rasping drive onto the bar and over or a corner.2009, Ian Waterson, Live Through the Dream, page 7777. From the entry rasping
• I heard the harsh rasping of a weta, a mega-cricket.2008, David Stirling, “Belly Up in the Kauri Trees”, in Birds, Beasts and a Bike under the Southern Cross, Victoria, B.C.: Agio Publishing…. From the entry morepork
• The speaking voice was clear and strong with no raspiness, but there was a noticeable rasp in the loud singing voice.1978, Mavis Douglas, Vocal problems of the young singer. From the entry raspiness
• Podson glanced at Bradly, and away from him, and rasped his shoulder-blades; manifesting these symptoms of ill-ease over a spiritual quandary.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 81. From the entry ill-ease
• "I met her at a church festival one Christmas Eve," responded Aunt Saidie, in a high-pitched, rasping voice.1904, Ellen Glasgow, The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields. From the entry nuby
• I overheard a geologist say that a good pair of boots can be rasped to bits on a‘a in a couple of months.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 44. From the entry a'a
• Suddenly, we hear the rasping sound of a lens being misground and a shot of the chart shows production declining once again.2003, Peter B. High, The Imperial Screen, page 420. From the entry misgrind
• The radula end containing the first 5–10 rows of teeth showed evidence of wear from rasping over rock surfaces during feeding and was removed using dissection.2015 February 18, Asa H. Barber, Dun Lu, Nicola M. Pugno, “Extreme strength observed in limpet teeth”, in Journal of the Royal Society…. From the entry radula
• It had a slight rasp, soft subtones in the low notes and even control through the registers; he scattered stylized shakes of vibrato all through his playing.2007 July 20, Ben Ratliff, “Sounds to Quiet a Crowd While Recalling Faded Times”, in New York Times. From the entry subtone
• I distinguished the rasping whistles of bru-brus, the clarion choruses of red and yellow barbets, the feverish chattering of superb starlings and the harsh squawks of white-headed buffalo weavers.1989, Tom Heaton, In Teleki’s Footsteps: An East African Journey, London: Macmillan, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry brubru
• "Cal stood on the neat porch and kept his finger on the bell until the harsh overlight flashed on and the night bolt rasped and Mrs.1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden and the Wayward Bus, Viking Press, page 484. From the entry overlight
• With that, he stood rasping his beard, and frowning at her, and going back a few paces to frown and peer at her from this and that angle.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 178. From the entry tonalise
• Hubbert has a rasping voice and a razory laugh, and he's busy and theatrical in the worst way — a noisy performing pro with whirlwind arms and a saturnine puss.1991, New York Magazine, volume 24, number 21, page 62. From the entry puss

Meaning of rasp

1. noun A coarse file or filelike tool, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
2. noun The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound.
3. noun A group of guinea fowl.

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Questions about rasp in a sentence

How do you use rasp in a sentence?

Rasp is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Some sounds rasp the ear.”

What is a short sentence with rasp?

“His insults rasped my temper.”

What does rasp mean?

Rasp means a coarse file or filelike tool, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.