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Example sentences for "guttural"

Lexicographically close words:
gutteral; guttered; guttering; gutters; gutting; gutturals; gutty; guvnor; guy; guyed
  1. This hostile prophecy was hailed by Jimmy with a laugh whose repressed enjoyment took the semblance of a goose's hiss, except that its tone was more guttural and its volume more massive.

  2. Indrawing guttural and clavicular fossae and at epigastrium.

  3. I would awaken in the night and listen; a low guttural warning, a sullen whine--then stillness.

  4. She stepped in front of me; a low, guttural growl of warning.

  5. I expect no service from you," was Blake's curtly guttural response.

  6. Well, I'm back," he announced in his guttural bass, as though to bridge a silence that was becoming abysmal.

  7. No," was the peddler's mild yet guttural response.

  8. His own once guttural voice was plaintive, as he spoke.

  9. He spoke English very fluently, yet with a strong, guttural intonation, whilst the well-known Spanish oath which he uttered betrayed his nationality.

  10. The soft guttural tones revealed the identity of the speaker to Ursula.

  11. He was tall and gaunt, with hooked nose and deep-sunk eyes; he had cultivated a long, grey beard, and could call forth the powers of Mirrab the Witch with a remarkably solemn and guttural voice.

  12. Some distance off they could hear the sound of voices in guttural tones, the occasional click of a bayonet as it was slipped into place, the low rumble of what might have been field pieces being moved into position.

  13. The men conversed in guttural tones for several minutes, that seemed as many ages to the watchers in the shadows.

  14. The guttural voices of the riders told the concealed watchers that they belonged to the enemy.

  15. A swift guttural conference among the leaders of the gray-clad marauders was followed by the barking of equally guttural commands.

  16. We have apprehended them vaguely as one apprehends pigs--as a nation of gross feeders and badly dressed women drinking a mixture of treacle and onions they call beer, with a reputation for guttural peregrination and philosophy.

  17. Eventually they burst out into cries of wonderment, making curious guttural sounds with their lips, and smacking their thighs in token of their appreciation.

  18. Then in hesitating signs, slaps, clicks, and guttural utterances, I gave them to understand that it was against my faith to have anything whatever to do with the horrid orgy they contemplated.

  19. They made queer, guttural sounds with their mouths, evidently expressive of amazement; they slapped their thighs, and cracked their fingers.

  20. As Mr. Hucks recovered his balance and stared in at the caravan doorway, now wide open, from the darkness beyond the gate came a cry and a fierce guttural bark--the two blent together.

  21. Terrible sounds issued from the cabin--cries of a woman imploring mercy, fierce guttural oaths of a man determined to grant none.

  22. He spoke with a guttural drawl, and kept on with his work, but there was a meaning in his words for the pretty girl, who had coquetted with him before taking up with Jim Tenny.

  23. His consternation returned with the advance of the two ancient clansmen who, after a guttural panegyric in Gaelic, offered him further symbols--a claymore and target, very formidable to behold.

  24. Also the stern prohibition against talking aloud (corroborated by the piper with many guttural warnings) grew more and more irksome as the night advanced.

  25. The meal was almost ready when the end of the caravan arrived, and the two rearmost sowars rejoined their comrades, with no other sound than a guttural grunt of satisfaction.

  26. Then they turned him on his back, uttering guttural grunts of satisfaction, and he looked up into the malicious faces of Nurla Bai and Black Jack.

  27. Moreover, the sound itself, with its deep guttural notes, is by no means always of the same strength.

  28. In the former it is a loud squeal, ending in a more guttural tone; in the latter it is a distinct roar, resembling that of a panther.

  29. He said it in English, with a thick and almost guttural foreign accent, and his voice shook over the words.

  30. The Corsicans broke into quick guttural cries, as men hailing a miracle.

  31. As the bitch sneaked wolfishly to the back of my legs I attempted to caress her, an action that provoked a long, guttural growl.

  32. But even as the girl was in the first throes of delight at this unexpected meeting, the guttural laugh of Magua was heard, and she saw the dark form and malignant visage of the savage.

  33. Uncas is here," said another voice, in the same soft, guttural tones.

  34. When he spoke his voice was guttural with emotion.

  35. There had been doubts of his linguistic range at first, but he had an understanding expression, and his English seemed guttural rather than really bad.

  36. But now the souls of the sons of the Fatherland, warmed with wine, began to think of home and love and patriotism, and longed for some more melodious utterances than this continuous guttural clatter.

  37. All the incidents of the drive had now to be recapitulated; and there ensued a perfect Babel of guttural Schwarzwald German.

  38. The only sound to be heard was the occasional rattling of sticks by the beaters, accompanied by their peculiar guttural cry.

  39. He arose, breathing guttural but incomprehensible denunciations against his tormentor, who escaped from his clutches by nimbly running up the ratlines to the foretop, where he could safely indulge his merriment over the wrath of the Dutchman.

  40. For a moment, with the full luminousness of the Tuscan sky once more in his eyes, and the guttural strength of the Tuscan language once more in his ears, Alfieri seems to have been delighted.

  41. The nasal and guttural pronunciation of the French language, the bare existence of such a word as quatrain, is enough to prove to Alfieri that the French can never know true liberty.

  42. Their dance was over, and from the few guttural tones which reached him, Danforth knew that they were planning the death of some particular individuals, which was probably to precede their attack on the settlement.

  43. A guttural murmur of assent ran through the lodge.

  44. This deficiency originates in the inaccuracy of the application of the guttural and synonymous letters.

  45. It is a guttural nasal + =gw=, as is proved by the ng of the remaining Germanic languages (also of the ON.

  46. Before guttural consonants =n= becums a guttural nasal which (in imitation of the Gr.

  47. The Latin sign (n) for the guttural nasal occurs but a few times in Lu.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "guttural" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alveolar; articulation; aspiration; assimilated; assimilation; back; blurred; brassy; brazen; breathy; broad; central; cerebral; check; choking; close; coarse; consonant; cracked; dental; diphthong; dorsal; dry; explosive; flat; front; glide; glottal; gruff; guttural; hard; harsh; hawking; heavy; high; hoarse; husky; inarticulate; indistinct; labial; lateral; lax; light; lingual; liquid; lisping; low; metallic; mid; modification; mute; muted; narrow; nasal; open; palatal; peak; pharyngeal; phone; phonetic; phonic; pitched; quavering; ragged; raucous; rough; rounded; rude; shaking; shaky; soft; sonant; sonority; stertorous; stifled; stop; stopped; strangled; stressed; strident; strong; surd; syllabic; syllable; tense; thick; throaty; tinny; tonal; tonic; tremulous; unaccented; unstressed; vocable; voice; voiced; voiceless; vowel; weak; wide