Improper cottoning results in a raspy tone, especially at higher pitches.

In later decades, he took on a deliberate, slightly raspy tone.

A resonator also became standard on the exhaust to lower the raspy tone that the engine produces.

This forced him to speak about an octave higher, with a raspy tone.

"Slow down, you won't get it all at once," he said, in a soft, raspy tone.

"I can talk, you know," the bear man declared in a raspy tone.

"I'm not feeling well," Brount conceded in a raspy tone.

It has a deep tone similar to that of a cello, but more raspy.

"Go ahead, say it," asserted Blitz suddenly, in a raspy tone.

"We are," he assured her in his low, raspy tone.