Sentence examples for a scratchy voice from inspiring English sources

He speaks with a scratchy voice that carries strong hints of his New York roots.

Looking gaunt and speaking in a scratchy voice, he apologized to the nation "for the trouble I have caused".

Gülen, a dour, balding proselytizer with a scratchy voice, had fled Turkey in 1999, fearing arrest by the country's military rulers.

On a Sunday morning last April, we were awakened at six-thirty by a scratchy voice on the loudspeaker saying, "Welcome to Bougainville, the most miserable place in the world.

Squirrel cheeked and beetle browed, with rounded shoulders and a scratchy voice, he is a virtuoso of exasperation, a maestro of disappointment, an intrepid navigator through squalls of frustration and failure.

With a scratchy voice that grew scratchier through the years, Mr. Yauch rapped as MCA in the Beastie Boys, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year.

Mr. Yauch, who was a practicing Buddhist, started out as a tongue-in-cheek prankster, a scratchy voiced punk rocker who adopted rap as a form.

He has a weathered, scratchy voice and a thick, juicy Carolina accent.

He has a resonant, scratchy voice and a playful theatricality, but what distinguishes him from other bluntly honest comics is the gravity of the questions he asks and the doggedness with which he pursues them.

In a sweet, scratchy voice, Givenson sang a plaintive ballad that he wrote about Haitian misery after the earthquake and cholera epidemic.

The narrator sounds a little like a radio announcer, and it should come as no surprise that Evison, who has a resonant, scratchy voice, was once a drive-time radio host.