Sentence examples for ragged voice from inspiring English sources
The phrase "ragged voice" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a voice that sounds rough, hoarse, or strained, often due to emotion or physical condition. Example: "After hours of shouting at the concert, her ragged voice barely carried above the crowd."
"There's no place for me in that house," he said in a pinched, ragged voice.
50 Cent has been touring nonstop since before he released "Get Rich or Die Tryin' " (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope), and he has the ragged voice to prove it.
The shift in her vocals from the careful enunciation of her early material to the smeared, ragged voice on her later recordings is pretty striking.
For much of the night Too Short went frequently to a handkerchief in his back pocket to wipe down his bald head, and after about 45 minutes he asked the crowd for forgiveness for his ragged voice.
True, Denyce Graves played the Dragon in "Grendel" (in woefully ragged voice), but the main attraction was the little-known but very fast-rising bass Eric Owens, in the title role.
Bill Meier's filibuster in the same building — on the same floor, at the same desk — 36 years earlier left him with a stiff back, rubbery legs, a ragged voice and a footnote-size place in history, though few people outside Texas remember.
"C'mon, Tony lad, please!" a ragged Yorkshire voice cried, above the bedlam.
They included Norbert Leo Butz (a Tony nominee for "Thou Shalt Not"), in evocatively ragged-edged voice as the thuggish Jigger Craigin; Judy Kaye (of "Mamma Mia!") as the maternal Nettie Fowler; and, in delightful nonsinging sketches, Blythe Danner and Philip Bosco.
"I flew like three feet," she recalled recently, her voice ragged.
Yet Prine growls his words softly, his voice ragged but not rough.
If the girl wears a hijab she must be honest," Igraa said in a voice ragged from chain-smoking, during a late-night interview at her Damascus apartment.
