Use "rasping" in a sentence

1. “Listen carefully, Big Nose”, said a thin, rasping voice

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2. I heard the rasping breathing of the sick man

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3. "What's the meaning of this?" I heard him say at last in a dry, rasping tone

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4. “What about Arioch?” he asked in a rasping voice, a look of panic on his face

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5. A dark, inhuman rasping voice echoed within Alistair’s brain

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6. Slowly she got her breath back but it was rasping and short I said

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7. It was a rasping, high-pitched shriek that came in quick bursts: Scree! Scree! Scree! Closer it came, closer

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8. I took it to the box, opened it up, and found a dozen pistols with the numbers removed through what appeared to be filing or rasping

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9. An intrepid bicycle delivery boy skidded out from a narrow street, tires rasping on sanded concrete

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10. The sobs turned dry when all my tears were spent, my throat rasping with grief

11. Bending over, the creature inspected his damaged foot, it’s long tongue rasping at his torn skin

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12. Fin’s thoughts were cut short when the creature slapped its mouth against his, the tooth covered tongue pushing its way down his throat with a rasping noise that vibrated throughout his head

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13. High above him he could hear a rare corncrake making its rasping call

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14. Rolling over, he laid there, hoarse breath rasping in his throat

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15. Today, decades later and in a country where I haven't heard French for years, I can still hear her voice rasping "-e, -es, -e, -ons, -ez, -ent

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16. Don’t you remember the rasping cough

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17. in a deep rasping breath and then let it out in a long, long,

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18. Lifting his head she listened to his breathing, the rasping and his lack of response to her probing told her that there was nothing that she could do for him

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19. “On your feet, you poor imitation of the soldiers I trained!” He barked in the most rasping voice that he had ever heard himself use

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20. Again, the same soldiers who had pinned him lurched toward him rasping in a dialect

21. “On your feet, you poor imitation of the soldiers I trained!” He barked in the most rasping voice

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22. The soldiers from their lord’s new garrison have seen to that, and his fingers itch for the feel of the quill and the rasping of parchment as the ink stains the whiteness

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23. " The voice was rasping and harsh

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24. Then another voice came rasping through the farmyard, a raucous cry that sent the chickens scattering in panic, and made the colour drain from Jed’s ruddy face

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25. Boglehob dangled the Key above Bryony, his wheezy chuckle warping into a deep rasping laugh

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26. back, and, judging by his rasping voice and glowing red eyes, he was stil

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27. They couldn’t hear the rasping laugh of Zeus

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28. ‘You didn’t seriously imagine the boys you raped wouldn’t tell their fathers, did you?’ asked the engorged captor in a rasping croak

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29. In rasping cadences she welcomed and invited them in

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30. With a rasping screech of rusty hinges the gate moved ponderously inward, and Conan straightened and drew his sword

31. A rasping noise and a tick under the flooring jolted her

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32. A deep rasping sound came from Ishan as the ancient vampire continued to hold on to his own life

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33. From above him he hears a thin rasping voice

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34. “Hello,” said the man in a hard rasping voice that sounded like

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35. over again,” he said to me in his rasping whisper

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36. He quickly hurried up the wide hall as another rasping barrage of knocks thwacked the entryway

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37. Breathing was so difficult now, the rasping sound as he pulled air in was not as he remembered it, why the roar and the bubbles as he breathed out?

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38. The squid’s long ribbon like tongue covered with hook like rasping teeth, tried frantically to eject the cylinders, but Max forced them in place

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39. A purr, a rasping lick, and they drifted with the sultry air,

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40. Suddenly, he was sure he could hear the noise of the approaching cart above the rasping sound of his own breath, and he began running at an uneven pace, skipping from tier to tier, treading as near to the tracks as he could in order to avoid another accident

41. Her lungs were rasping

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42. By the Zorgs of Zozorstra, thought Ben, what's going on here? The cat emitted a loud rasping noise

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43. animal sound rasping out of his throat, a precur-

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44. The others were not so peaceful, and Hal could hear rasping breaths

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45. The boy coughed a rasping: “Wake up, Wake up all of you

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46. A rasping one trying to keep it low but at the same time doing all he could to convey the agitated message

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47. Then his eyes became gritty which was a prelude to a persistent dry cough and rasping throat

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48. Then I heard a strange, rasping noise behind me

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49. "All right then," Zygmunt replied in a rasping, whispering voice, "you will hear all the horrid details of it

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50. Oak merely nodded back still unable to force words through his battered throat, his rasping breaths were the only sound he could make

51. I swallowed blood and looked at him, breathing so hard I could hear my own breath rasping in my throat

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52. Andrew Galvin's painfully rasping breath was now the only sound

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53. A deep, rasping voice said: “Give me your hand, and I will save you!”

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54. His voice rasping heavily he said, “Take it and protect yourself! Sabotage if you can

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55. for the rasping, he wouldn't have even believed she was still breathing

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56. Sure enough, something tainted the shadowed silence now, a rasping, clanging sound—the din of a steel factory from a mile away—that lingered over the trees

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57. And rhythmic rasping of thy sands and waves,

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58. The great snoring sound began again---there was a painful pause while the breath was held--back came the rasping breath

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59. A rough, rasping tremor ran through the men

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60. Somewhere under his anger, there was a lurking, nameless uneasiness, the shudder of sharks rasping their backs along the bottom of the raft

61. "His words were quiet, but he had a rasping way of saying them which was very menacing

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62. How slowly those dreadful two hours went by! Once I heard a low, rasping sound, which I took to be the creature licking its own fur

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63. I heard the claws rasping as they clung to the wire-netting, and the breath of the beast made me sick

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64. He bent as I watched him, and I heard the sharp turning of a key and the rasping of metal upon metal

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65. ” A rasping, disembodied voice comes over the speakers

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66. And when the veils coming loose from them pulled forward or sucked back, there was now a rasping sound

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67. Then he hurled the knife and the rock far down the hillside, where they were swallowed by trees, brush, and tall rasping grasses

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68. A deep rasping breath came from his mouth as he pressed his hand hard against his sternum

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69. The soft, rasping sound of Ali’s breath held me where I was

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70. ” He snorted and cleared his throat with a loud, rasping sound

71. I heard his breath rasping in the silent void, as he waited for an answer that would not come

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72. Ford was rasping for breath

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73. "No, it's not!" Rowan declared in a furious rasping whisper, turning to the old woman again

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74. Skovorodnikoff, who was sitting opposite Wolf, continually gathering with his thick fingers his beard and mustache into his mouth, as soon as Bé was through with his argument, stopped chewing his beard, and, in a loud, rasping voice, said that although the president of the stock company was a villain, he should favor a reversal if there were legal grounds to sustain it, but as there were none, he joined in the opinion of Ivan Semenovitch (Bé), and he invariably rejoiced at this shot aimed at Wolf

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75. The old men had thirty years of mutual confidences to impart, and set busily at it, the parrot waddling the monotonous round of his cage overhead and rasping:

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