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rasping::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | rasp |
| Type of | utterance, vocalization |
| Derivation | rasp |
Examples of rasping
rasping
It has an impressively smooth fruitiness, but slightly rasping, sandpapery oak.
From the telegraph.co.uk
At night you hear the sound of crickets, a barking dog, a car's rasping engine.
From the time.com
Sending a rasping forehand past Djokovic and the crowd go wild, well wildish.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The suspirations of Smith's breathy, eventually rasping horn begin the piece.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
With each rasping intake of breath her mother, Amina, lovingly mops her brow.
From the independent.co.uk
Jenny Hill's sax soars alongside Junior Jazz's funky guitar and Ray's rasping vocal.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
She hit 20 winners, most of them rasping forehands, to her opponents'nine.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The sound of pebbles rasping on metal screens mingled with the animated conversations.
From the washingtonpost.com
Gorostieta sent a rasping shot over the cross bar with 16 minutes to play in the half.
From the dailyherald.com
- Rasp: uttering in an irritated tone
- Grating: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
- (raspingly) gratingly: in a harsh and grating manner; "her voice fell gratingly on our ears"
- (rasp) scrape with a rasp
- (rasp) a coarse file with sharp pointed projections
- (rasp) utter in a grating voice
- A rasp is a tool used for shaping wood or other material. It consists of a point or the tip, then a long steel bar or the belly, then the heel or bottom, then the tang. The tang is joined to a handle, usually made of plastic or wood. The bar has sharp teeth. ...
- (Rasp (Dino-riders)) Dino-Riders is a cartoon television series that aired in the late 1980s, primarily as a promotion to launch a new Tyco toy line. Only fourteen episodes were produced, thirteen of which were aired as part of the Marvel Action Universe. ...
- (The Rasp) The Rasp is a whodunit mystery novel by Philip MacDonald. It was published in 1924 and introduces his series character, detective Colonel Anthony Gethryn. It is set in a country house in rural England.
