Sentence examples for rasping sound from inspiring English sources

Yet, for all of his research, he discovered only one noise that is universally intolerable: the gride, the rasping sound epitomized by nails on a chalkboard.

A chest examination noted a crunching and rasping sound at the precordium, synchronous with the heartbeat.

It makes a rasping sound.

She made a little rasping sound.

A patient coughed behind me, a rasping sound.

Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging.

A biologist at Duke University has shown how a rock lobster makes pulsed, rasping sounds to scare off predators.

Tiptoeing downstairs, I heard rasping sounds coming from the room, and slithering, and a weird flickering light.

Its pungent, sometimes rasping sounds have immense impact, though James Johnstone has a tendency to favour stridently loud pedals, and the opening Prelude is unbalanced.

An alternation of the English words "terror" and "joy" gives way to scraping and rasping sounds evoking an extended death rattle, and ends with a victorious shout of "Joy!" The viola, Mr. Kahane said in an introduction, represents Charon, mediating between the lands of the living and the dead.

In such situations it may emit rasping sounds or clicking snaps, produced probably by the bill but possibly by the tongue.