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as in hoarse
harsh and dry in sound
had a bad cold and a throaty cough to go with it
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as in deep
having a low musical pitch or range
a throaty alto
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Recent Examples of throaty
But much like Thatcher, for whom Anderson assumed a quivering deep and throaty tone, the role was a physical one that required a great deal of voice work.
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Manori Ravindran, Variety, 1 Apr. 2022
Just as noteworthy is the V-6's revised exhaust note, which thrums more deeply than before and lends this big Lincoln an appropriately throaty voice that could (almost) be mistaken for a burbling V-8's.
—Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2022
Metro Detroit’s Woodward Avenue, suburban twisties and country roads were suddenly full of spring songbirds: the sharp call of the Porsche flat-six, the gurgling growl of the Mustang V-8, the throaty bark of the Corvette.
—cleveland, 30 May 2020
As if on cue, the Estonian psychologist, Alar, vomited into his bucket, setting off a domino effect of throaty purges around the room.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 29 Apr. 2011
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Manori Ravindran, Variety, 1 Apr. 2022
Just as noteworthy is the V-6's revised exhaust note, which thrums more deeply than before and lends this big Lincoln an appropriately throaty voice that could (almost) be mistaken for a burbling V-8's.
—Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2022
Metro Detroit’s Woodward Avenue, suburban twisties and country roads were suddenly full of spring songbirds: the sharp call of the Porsche flat-six, the gurgling growl of the Mustang V-8, the throaty bark of the Corvette.
—cleveland, 30 May 2020
As if on cue, the Estonian psychologist, Alar, vomited into his bucket, setting off a domino effect of throaty purges around the room.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 29 Apr. 2011
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for throaty
Adjective
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Give Palestine your voice, and when your voice goes hoarse, hang your flags, wear your keffiyeh.—
Thomas Smith,
Billboard,
18 Sep. 2025
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And when your voice goes hoarse, hang your flags, wear your keffiyeh.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
18 Sep. 2025
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Jerami Grant came off the bench for 29 points, hitting 4-of-7 from deep, while Deni Avdija added 20 points and Shaedon Sharpe tossed in 15.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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Goalkeeper Robert Sanchez deliberately aimed deep passes to both wings.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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But encounters with the island’s residents, including with his gruff but warm-hearted landlady (played by German screen legend Hanna Schygulla), gradually alter his outlook.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Oct. 2025
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Panday plays a convincingly gruff tortured artist alongside Padda’s struggling ingenue, and most of the screen time is devoted to their pairing instead of introducing tertiary excess.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
13 Sep. 2025
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Athena, who was born in April, is a shepsky mix, half husky and half German shepherd.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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One of Lipa’s most significant attributes is the husky tone of her mezzo-soprano, lending a gritty roughness to her songs’ pop polish.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
5 Oct. 2025
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The organization’s Green Heart Project, which studies the impact of better air quality on heart disease through urban greening, has found that increasing the number of trees and shrubs in an area can create lower levels of a blood marker associated with inflammation.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Oct. 2025
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Here is Carreras profiting from that exact ploy while playing for Benfica against Barcelona in the Champions League last season, sneaking forward on the far side before receiving the switch and hammering a low cross into striker Vangelis Pavlidis to score.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Throaty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/throaty. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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