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Example sentences for "husky"

Lexicographically close words:
huskies; huskily; huskiness; husking; husks; hussar; hussies; hussy; husting; hustings
  1. Betty, their daughter, had come in early, accompanied by a husky and personable young lieutenant, who has no other place in this story.

  2. Toma scarcely could manage the husky as he hitched it to the sled.

  3. Sometimes, however, a low whine sounded among the wolves, at which the husky pricked up his ears and did not seem so frightened.

  4. Snow make um much warmer to sleep," Toma explained to them, as he crawled out of his bed, very much as a husky gets out of a snowdrift.

  5. Supper, I guess," he said in a thick voice, husky from long silence.

  6. I could not wait longer," broke in the other, in a voice husky with eagerness and liquor.

  7. It seems so," remarked Mr. DeVere, who spoke in a hoarse and husky whisper, difficult to understand.

  8. Oh, I guess not, if the ladder is good and firm," he replied in his husky voice.

  9. Mr. DeVere had been given a room near his daughters', and they could hear him talking in his husky voice to Mr. Pertell, who was across the hall.

  10. I've just left mammy," she began, in a voice that was husky with emotion.

  11. I started over ter see Marse Carson, missy," he said, in a low, husky voice.

  12. In a tired, husky voice, for he had made many a speech through the day, he told her of Pete's escape.

  13. Braider's voice had grown husky and he coughed.

  14. The lawyer had read the letter aloud, but with a voice growing husky and tremulous, and having finished he sat down silent.

  15. He was unable to commend his soul to God, let us do so for him," said Taras, with the same husky voice.

  16. The commissioner meanwhile had partly recovered, and had found his voice, though a husky one.

  17. Picton, soothing down a husky lump, with a cup of milk.

  18. I, with my mouth full of the dry, husky provender.

  19. The baron stared aghast and in a husky voice exclaimed: "What!

  20. Give me time to think," said the baron in a husky tone, and then after rising and drinking ice water from a goblet he asked: "What does all this mean?

  21. Her voice was husky as she tried to speak.

  22. And now, for the first time, she spoke with some degree of energy, albeit there was a sinister undertone in the husky voice.

  23. He felt that he must speak, and in a deep husky voice he began-- "You have been very ill, then?

  24. Captain Marion came out of the cabin with a husky young patrolman.

  25. I went away, taking with me the memory of her dark eyes and her low, hoarse, husky voice.

  26. And we heard a husky voice in the kitchen saying-- 'All right, governor!

  27. While her husky rendition of the solo parts of certain anthems was strongly suggestive of the Bijou Theatre with its adjoining beer garden, her efforts were highly praised.

  28. Mrs. Jackson had two missing front teeth which she had lost upon an occasion to which she no longer referred, also a voice strained and husky from the many midnight choruses in which she had joined before she sold her goodwill and fixtures.

  29. A remittance man from Devonshire whose ancestral halls had sheltered an hundred knights danced with Faro Nell, who gambled for a living, while the station agent's attenuated daughter palpitated in the arms of a husky stage-driver.

  30. Then by the flaring lights the Speaker read, Albeit with husky voice and shaking hands, An act to amend an act to regulate The shad and alewive fisheries.

  31. They were husky words, yearning and afraid of their own sound, and were spoken by Maggie's father.

  32. His gay voice fell strangely on the other's husky tones, and for the moment, in spite of his earth-stained hands and his clothes of coarse blue jean, he might have been a man of the world condescending to a peasant.

  33. We raced with the other boats for the nearest prize, which proved to be a husky bull, longer than the baleener we had killed.

  34. Two barefooted, but very husky negroes came running in from the portico.

  35. At eleven o'clock, I was working at a fair pace, flinging moderately husky forkfuls over a ten-foot space into the box, when Marco looked up.

  36. Cooler," yelled McLanahan, his voice going up into a husky shriek.

  37. PAGES 88 AND 90 hear their piercing whistle: the husky yap, yap, yap of the fox: It is usually the young hawks in the fall that whistle, as it is usually the young foxes in the summer and fall that bark.

  38. Tom in a husky voice; "if not I--I'm engaged just now.

  39. You are awfully good, Salome," Reginald said in a husky voice.

  40. I say, Salome, don't take on like this," said Raymond in a strangely husky and unnatural voice.

  41. The husky voice moved him as much as what she said.

  42. Her husky voice, softened by her sleepiness, lulled Raul.

  43. He yielded finally--observing that Americans are queer, tough customers, and that their babies must be husky if their eyes can stand such stuff.

  44. When I finally handed over my oeuvre to the Red Cross, the interview with the husky well-fed football player of a doctor was refreshing.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "husky" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ass; beefy; big; bouncing; brassy; brawny; brazen; bull; burly; camel; coarse; cracked; dog; dromedary; dry; elephant; fat; forceful; forcible; great; gruff; guttural; hale; hard; hardy; harsh; hearty; hefty; hoarse; horse; hound; husky; large; lusty; metallic; mighty; mule; muscular; nervy; obstinate; potent; powerful; puissant; ragged; raucous; reindeer; robust; rough; rude; rugged; stalwart; steely; stertorous; stout; strangled; strapping; strident; strong; sturdy; sumpter; thick; throaty; tinny; vigorous


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    husky voice; husky whisper