Sentence examples for hoarse from inspiring English sources

The word 'hoarse' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe a voice or sound that is rough and strained, as if from shouting or being ill. For example, "After cheering loudly for hours, his voice had become hoarse."

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hoarse

adjective

Afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice.

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And although he will cheer himself hoarse this summer supporting Giovanni Trapattoni's side in Poland at the European Championships, he is not the kind of person to wrap himself up in a tricolour or knot a green, white and gold scarf around his neck.

When the acrobatics troupe botched an attempt at a complicated human pyramid, they laughed themselves hoarse.

Instead he is pounding the country, speaking himself hoarse.

Political editor Nick Robinson, absent in the campaign but now back from lung surgery, was still hoarse but as incisive as ever and Laura Kuenssberg showed why more women should have a place at the top table of analysis.

Picture the scene: coffee cups strewn across the table, exhausted faces flushed with relief and voices hoarse from weeks of frenetic campaigning.

School leaders are now terrified the same will happen to them despite Ofsted shouting until hoarse that tick-boxes aren't needed.

To get here, to the Garden, Mr Modi has spent decades roaring himself hoarse thousands of times before crowds of peasants in parched fields.

AFTER the National People's Congress made him prime minister on March 15th, Li Keqiang declared that "screaming yourself hoarse" was not as good as "rolling up your sleeves and getting to work".

In a short, gracious speech the mayor, still hoarse from a nasty cold, congratulated Mr Garcia for a "good race" and called him a "good man" with whom he is looking forward to debating in the weeks ahead.

Everywhere the marines fought, Navajo code-talkers, under fire, hoarse, tired and thirsty, were vital in victory, directing fire, calling up reinforcements, evacuating the wounded, and warning of enemy movements.Gratitude came slowly.

Visotsky, a poet and songwriter with a deep, hoarse voice, has often been called the "Bob Dylan of the Soviet Union".

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