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Example sentences for "rasped"

Lexicographically close words:
rason; rasonable; rasp; raspberries; raspberry; rasping; raspings; rasps; raspy; rassen
  1. Dillon rasped his stubbly chin and looked at the Texan.

  2. He rasped his hands some before he got them out.

  3. Then I should have to ask you how you come by it, seeing as the map is drawn on Sheriff Brandt's official stationery," Jed rasped swiftly.

  4. The gate rasped on its rusted hinges; then slammed shut.

  5. We won't bother none of the crew," rasped the Captain, harshly.

  6. Brent's voice rasped a trifle harshly, but Claw did not notice.

  7. They may open in the middle or at top, as before mentioned, and further have a strengthening piece of thick cork glued all over them outside and rasped down to the shape of a rough oval.

  8. The plaster will soon set, and may be further rasped or trimmed into shape.

  9. In Thralldom's grasp we waged giant war, The storms rasped at each cursing crowd, From regions far there sprung a cold That froze each hoodlum stuck in loam.

  10. He rasped first one unshaven cheek and then the other, with his thin, quivering hand.

  11. Britt's tones rasped when he said that; his feelings were getting away from him.

  12. You are getting away just in time," rasped the usurer.

  13. I don't keep a dog and do my own barking," rasped the president.

  14. Slice an onion in the dish before you put in the steaks or chops, and garnish both with rasped horse-radish.

  15. Once the Prussian's bayonet rasped against the wood casing of Ginger's rifle--a foiled effort to cripple his antagonist's fingers.

  16. Quite so: quite so," rasped the Professor.

  17. They don't," rasped the little man, turning purple with rage.

  18. After these two operations have been twice repeated, the rasped substance is suspended in sacks between two strong vertical boards and crushed to the utmost by means of clamp screws, and repeatedly shaken up.

  19. The Senator's irony rasped like a file on metal.

  20. I'm in an inquiring turn o' mind right now," rasped Lanigan.

  21. The tones rasped and rattled and jangled in the receiver, which, for the sake of his eardrum, Senator Corson held away from his head.

  22. Before the destroyer could work up to her maximum speed her knife-like bows rasped and bit deeply into the hull of the doomed unterseeboot.

  23. Simultaneously the brass trappings of the harness rasped Peter's hand.

  24. The sudden sharp sound had rasped her overwrought nerves cruelly.

  25. It rasped uncomfortably, like rusty iron grating on rusty iron.

  26. Hearn of Red Bill Summers, I op-ine," shot out the man with the red hair in a voice that rasped like a file on rusty iron.

  27. Send to table with it a plate or glass of rasped Parmesan or other rich cheese, with a dessert spoon in it, that those who like it may put it into their soup on the plate.

  28. Garnish the edge of the dish with little piles or spots of rasped crust of bread.

  29. A little sour apple and rasped cocoa-nut stewed with the curry will be found a great improvement.

  30. They rasped it off with their tarry knuckles, and would knock down any one of canine extraction, who dared to say wet was the white of their eyes.

  31. Her nerves were rasped by an intolerable irritation as she looked at the girl, and felt that her thoughts were being read.

  32. It was the Chevalier, seldom failing in ready speech, whose careless tongue rasped me with quick retort.

  33. I rejoiced that the fellow slept, for he rasped me with his ceaseless, senseless attacks on the Roman Church.

  34. As cautiously he moved toward it a taut obstacle in the nature of a cord or small hawser rasped him just under the nose and, shrinking back, he was aware of a ghostly white article swinging gently within arm-reach of him.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rasped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.