How to Use rasp in a Sentence

rasp

1 of 2 verb
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  • The metal boxes rasped as they were dragged across the floor.
  • The metal edge shaves the skin off her arm with a rasping sound like a meat slicer.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The creatures attach to fish with a suction cup mouth, rasp a hole though the fish’s scales and skin, and feed on blood and body fluids.
    — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 22 May 2018
  • Ollie Watkins notched a leveller for the Bees in the 56th and Neal Maupay gave the home side the lead with a rasping effort from the edge of the box with 13 minutes to go.
    — SI.com, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Ghost crabs owe their rasping stomach growls to a mechanism known as the gastric mill.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Jack Stephens drew a fine save from Lloris in the 68th minute - rasping a right-footed effort towards the far post that was tipped wide by the goalkeeper.
    — SI.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • Her dynamism as a box-to-box player — including a rasping long-range shot — has been missed.
    — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 29 May 2018
  • Substitute Nathan Dyer rasped a drive just over the bar as the hosts upped the ante again, and their pressure told as Jordan Ayew fired home with 20 minutes to go.
    — SI.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • In the 90th minute, with a rasping shot across goal, Van de Sanden forced a fine save from Lindahl but it was left to Groenen create history.
    — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 3 July 2019
  • Sometimes a bleaty quality crept in, sometimes a dry high note was rasped or snarled, sometimes an ornament emerged with the bite of a buzz saw.
    — Anne Midgette, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2019
  • The 23-year-old nearly doubled his side's advantage a minute before the break with a rasping shot from 25 yards which just drifted wide of Oblak's right-hand post.
    — SI.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Soon the rasping sounds of a saw joined those of falling water, and local settlers carried away splintery but fresh-smelling planks of oak, elm and walnut.
    — Darryl Levings, kansascity, 18 July 2017
  • The noise of desperate, rasping inhalation echoes throughout the evening.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 11 June 2017
  • The beach-dwelling crustacean can create loud rasping sounds, not only with its claws, but also with its guts, new research reveals.
    — David Shultz, Science | AAAS, 10 Sep. 2019
  • And for those with extra-gnarly calluses, this Tweezerman rasp that writer Kase Wickman uses to shave off the thick husks of skin around the balls of her feet is also on sale.
    — The Editors, The Strategist, 26 June 2018
  • City did take their foot off the pedal a little, but Fernandinho still tested Pickford with a rasping drive in the 57th minute, which took a deflection off Calvert-Lewin.
    — SI.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • The plummeting temperatures give rise to high-altitude clouds suffused with the CFCs still swirling in Earth’s atmosphere, which then rasp away at the nearby ozone.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020
  • With rasping percussion early on — four washboards! — dissonances rise through the winds.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Festival co-founder Lee Reynolds is still awake and riding high after his midnight set, shouting and chanting at the picturesque cerulean sky with his hair disheveled, voice rasped, and squinting eyes and arms raised high.
    — Jordan Diaz, Billboard, 5 May 2017
  • Before the half time interval the Spaniard denied rasping efforts from Marcelo and Ronaldo, but a heroic save late in the second-half to deny Ronaldo's close-range effort was arguably his best.
    — SI.com, 18 May 2018
  • Handanovic was called upon again moments later to keep out Emanuele Giaccherini's rasping effort from the right hand side of the box, as Chievo sought the opening goal that perhaps their positive play had warranted.
    — SI.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The Dutch waited for the match to start before getting their revenge, unleashing a barrage of fouls against the Argentineans before twice almost scoring; Rep narrowly heading the ball wide and then having a rasping shot saved well by Fillol.
    — SI.com, 10 June 2018
  • While studying the ghost crabs, researchers noticed that when they were involved in agonistic interactions, the crustaceans made the aggressive rasping noises even with their claws outstretched.
    — Amy Woodyatt and Allen Kim, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Some patients were breathing only in labored rasps; others lay motionless and silent, seemingly comatose.
    — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The metal boxes rasped as they were dragged across the floor.
  • The metal edge shaves the skin off her arm with a rasping sound like a meat slicer.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The creatures attach to fish with a suction cup mouth, rasp a hole though the fish’s scales and skin, and feed on blood and body fluids.
    — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 22 May 2018
  • Ollie Watkins notched a leveller for the Bees in the 56th and Neal Maupay gave the home side the lead with a rasping effort from the edge of the box with 13 minutes to go.
    — SI.com, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Ghost crabs owe their rasping stomach growls to a mechanism known as the gastric mill.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Jack Stephens drew a fine save from Lloris in the 68th minute - rasping a right-footed effort towards the far post that was tipped wide by the goalkeeper.
    — SI.com, 26 Dec. 2017
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rasp

2 of 2 noun
  • Kidd is back to work, though with just a soft rasp of a voice.
    — Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, 31 Mar. 2020
  • The bits where her voice starts cracking and the rasp comes out?
    — Megan Buerger, Billboard, 17 May 2018
  • The only sound the dog could be said to produce was the low rasp of the chain against cement.
    — Han Kang, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • As Kitchens talked to the media, his voice was sometimes a rasp.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 29 Dec. 2019
  • Throughout the day, Garland spoke in low tones, with a slight rasp to his voice.
    — Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Not the way Rivers’ voice, usually worn down to a rasp by April, feels great.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Shape on a lathe, or with a spokeshave or surform rasp.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 24 Apr. 2021
  • The crosscut made a sudden rasp, and the vibration in the handle changed.
    — John Jeremiah Sullivan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2019
  • John is jealous that someone with such a rasp has so much range.
    — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Christine has a cool rasp that sets her apart from other singers.
    — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Her own voice is a taut, lived-in soprano that can take on a flutter or a rasp.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2016
  • Well, Chayce certainly has the rasp to pull off this Bryan Adams classic.
    — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Bella is pure and crystal clear, while Katie has a cool rasp and an edge to her vocals.
    — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2021
  • While the sharp rasp of a cat’s lick is no mystery, the hollow nature of some of the cones on the tongue surface is new to science.
    — Alison MacKey, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2018
  • Biden took his place and removed his mask and began to speak in a voice that was just above a whisper and with a bit of a rasp.
    — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Blunt, 38, has this past year to thank for the fear that every little rasp or wheeze could be a sign of the pandemic.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 14 May 2021
  • The juice of the grapes is macerated with the skins, which provide a tinge of color and a mild rasp of tannin.
    — New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Burgholzer met the three of us in a treatment room and spoke with a rasp—the only outward sign of his disease.
    — Charles Schmidt, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2019
  • To give the bench an aged appearance, use a rasp or sanding block to rub through the paint along the lower edges of the legs' corners.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2020
  • There's a lot of passion in this performance, and his rasp is used to full effect.
    — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 24 May 2021
  • Cara has a soothing, pretty voice while Jay is all power and rasp.
    — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2022
  • His fizzy rasp certainly evokes the sound on the early albums.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 21 Oct. 2021
  • They were said in a rasp, too, as the veteran coach had to shout in a manner he wasn’t accustomed to in a long while.
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 16 May 2021
  • His forte was toe-tapping waltzes, and his voice recalled the rich rasp of Van Morrison.
    — Jeff Milo, Detroit Free Press, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Thick, cold air would slow the tremor of vocal cords and the speed of sound itself, deepening your voice and giving it a rasp.
    — Popular Science, 26 Jan. 2020
  • Stewart’s signature rasp broke out as a staple of The Jeff Beck Group.
    — USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • Even the barely audible rasp of the bow’s hair across a string can conjure the intimate shape of a last breath.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Wallen's voice is as much rock as country, arriving with a grunge rasp.
    — Jon Pareles New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Over chilling, Carpenter-esque dirges, and in his unique ghostly rasp, Jeezy would go into drug-trade specifics.
    — Abe Beame, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Fame has aged Cobain’s plaintive rasp, as if celebrity were some kind of public dungeon that turned his shout into a prisoner’s, looking for an echo in solitary confinement.
    — Howard Hampton, Spin, 21 Sep. 2023

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