rasping's Usage Examples:

toppleKovic gave the countdown to the toppling of the 30-foot statue of Bush, grasping a missile, to enormous acclaim.

Instead, she stretched for the laser gun, grasping it.

In this he drew a masterly picture, not only of the life and immorality of the friars but also of the insolent Filipino chiefs or caciques, subservient to the powers above, tyrannical to those below, superstitious, unprogressive and grasping.

The ministers received food and clothing from the contributions of the people, but also worked with their hands; the result of this was that they were very ignorant, and also were grasping after bequests from the dying.

Ignorant, brutal, grasping and corrupt as he was, he deserved the confidence of his master.

The whole wing is a unique modification, deeply affecting the skeletal, muscular and tegumentary structures, but fluttering, skimming, sailing, soaring are motions much more akin to one another than climbing and grasping, running, scratching, paddling and wading.

Callosities, or bare patches covered with hardened and thickened epidermis, are found on the buttocks of many apes, the breast of camels, the inner side of the limbs of Equidae, the grasping under-surface of the tail of prehensile-tailed monkeys, opossums; 'c.

A humid atmosphere may help relieve the rasping cough, and a small home humidifier or cool mist vaporizer is effective near the dog's kennel, crate or bed.

On the other hand, he has no claim to rank as a critical historian; he has no conception of the philosophy of history, no insight into the real causes that underlie political changes, no power of penetrating below the surface, or even of grasping the real interconnexion of the events which he describes.

"Nonsense, nonsense!" cried the old man, shaking his pigtail to see whether it was firmly plaited, and grasping his by the hand.

God being what He is, at once moral and all-powerful, the immoral life is doomed to overthrow, whether the immorality consist in grasping rapacity, proud self-aggrandizement, cruel exaction, exulting triumph or senseless idolatry.

The princess looked at him, not grasping what he was saying, but cheered by the expression of regretful sympathy on his face.

Synonyms:

rough, raspy, cacophonic, grating, gravelly, cacophonous, scratchy,

Antonyms:

quiet, consistent, smooth, good-natured, euphonious,