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But the most notable aspect of the president’s hoarse and breathy address was what he didn’t say.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

Several supporters in Dakar, their voices still hoarse and weary, told AFP they were disappointed by such threats.

From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026

The graduates were hoarse and flights were canceled, but nobody seemed to mind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

“I still recorded the show with my very hoarse voice, but then put the AI voice over that, telling the audience from the very beginning, I’m sick,” Mandy said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025

After we made ourselves hoarse, Fern said, “Put it on.”

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

But the enthusiasm of the crowd remained undiminished, with fans staying on their feet and singing, their voices growing hoarser, through all nine innings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2018

The young man bemused by the absurdities of civilization comes on now like a comic equivalent of an Old Testament Prophet, harsher and hoarser and invigorated with age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2017

Rufus Sewell stars as Zen, looking very Italian, but sounding exactly like Rufus Sewell, only hoarser.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 3, 2011

Costello winced, and his voice got suddenly hoarser.

From Time Magazine Archive

He ended up a little thinner, a little paler, and a lot hoarser than before.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

Soon, she would be holding Luna’s hand for the last time, touching her face for the last time—speaking her words of love in the hoarsest of whispers.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

“Yes, get right away from here, if you please!” said Grandpa Croaker in his deepest, hoarsest, rumbling, grumbling, thunder-voice.

From Bully and Bawly No-Tail by Louis Wisa

We see and hear the past through a distance which reduces all its inequalities to a plane, mellows all its shades into a pleasing hue, and subdues even its hoarsest voices into harmony.

From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by J. M. (John Marcus) Dickey

Jane was recalled from her polite scrutiny of the women at the next table by hearing her name mentioned in Droom's hoarsest voice, modified into something like a whisper.

From Jane Cable by George Barr McCutcheon

This roused the sleeper, who, half groaning, and puffing the air through his nostrils, grumbled out, in the hoarsest voice that I ever heard, and in a tone of surly impatience, "Who is there?"

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown