How To Use Rasping In A Sentence

About a meter tall if it stood erect, it must use its short, bowed legs arboreally by choice, for it ran on all fours and either foot terminated in three well-developed grasping digits. The Rebel Worlds
Even the shoes, booties with vertiginous heels, were covered in grasping little coral-like tentacles that shook as the models -- their faces abloom with gold and colorful stripes -- stomped down the catwalk. Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL)
They have shown they are grasping the nettle. Times, Sunday Times
But the howling vacuum had opened up inside her again, with its endless vistas of nothingness and no return, the harlequinade of grasping, painted lovers. Shortcut Man
Her blood-red lips and hooded eyes, her large hands firmly grasping the wheel, all convey a woman in control of her destiny.

It was certainly entertaining and one could not help but feel sorry for him for being involved with such a grasping, shallow woman of the sort portrayed here!
The attitude of the local council is lamentable in not grasping this opportunity with both hands.
You only consider the hounds as a fleeting object at which to ride; the fox as a necessary evil, without which all this 'rasping' and 'bruising' and 'cutting down,' as you call it in your ridiculous jargon, cannot be attained. Kate Coventry An Autobiography
Caliban hit him then, leaping out of the shadowed recesses under the next terrace up, long arms and longer legs wide and grasping, teeth glinting in earthlight. Ilium
The machine's arms lifted up, grasping it's head, rock and stone cracking and falling off in large boulders.
Wu Jinying is grasping steel knife to slaughter a cattle in workshop is involute arm, hand.
In an instant he rushed across the street, and Brigg charged forward to meet him, grasping the hilt of his sword in both hands.
Miriam caught up with me then, her hand grasping mine, her fingers fastening tight as she held me back. HIGH STAND
I wanted something small with big eyes and a strong rasping tongue to lavish me with affection. Times, Sunday Times
Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. Ambrose Bierce
They are infinite, I am thinking, all these hungry, grasping people chasing after the new and improved, the super and imperishable, and I stand alone against them - but that's the kind of thinking that led me astray all those years ago.
It was an episode about grasping dreams and seeing them dissolve. Times, Sunday Times
He hypothesized that basal primates were visually directed predators of fauna on slender branches, a milieu that favored a wide field of stereopsis and clawless, prehensile hands for visually tracking and grasping prey.
Some of the columnists' appointments seem to presage the adoption of a tone even more raspingly ideological.
The Lord grant that I may at last become an obedient and truly teachable child; for that faculty, whatsoever it be, that asks vociferously, seems not to be the one which, as I.P. says, "_graspingly receives," _ but is rather a hinderance to its reception. A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England
And I know what it feels like to want quietly and graspingly for unknown things.
There's that sickeningly familiar tone again - the rasping, grating, in isolation entirely inoffensive, six-string bravado.
Once you have painted all your M16/M4 magazines desert TAN and attached gutted 550 cord pull-carry loops you are ready for rapid recovery when emptied from your weapon: www. combatreform.com The best way to get the pull-carry loop into the snaplink/carabiner is by grasping it with your weak hand's trigger finger and using the other fingers to grasp the body of the snaplink/carabiner. WN.com - Articles related to World Trade Center (PG-13)
Now I'm talking about it so much it sounds like my life is a constant stream of noxious gases, like I walk around all day pumping, rasping and squelching.
He stands at the top of the incline beside the Canadian flag, grasping the rope and displaying great physical strength as well as moral fortitude.
The tangs don't extend all the way through to the end of the handle, the chef's knives have no defined shank for grasping the blade easily, and a few of the knives have ends that have snapped off from abuse.
One thing that movement conservatives have a hard time grasping is that so-called “characterological conservatives” do not necessarily (or even frequently) have any interest or anything in common with “conservatism” as an ideological movement. Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Standing Athwart History
The candle flame ran huge shadows like grasping fingers across the ceiling in the draught.
It's a grasping, greedy society, fuelled by educational expectation and privilege.
Grasping her prey with her legs and jaws, in another moment the wriggling body is passive in her grasp, subdued by the potent anæsthetic of her sting -- a hypodermic injection which instantly produces the semblance of death in its insect victim, reducing all the vital functions to the point of dissolution, and then holds them suspended -- literally prolongs life, it would sometimes seem, even beyond its normal duration -- by a process which I might call ductile equation. My Studio Neighbors
The crest they use is also nearly the same, viz., an armed arm, embowed, grasping a broken tilting spear. Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850
For Whitehead, everything in the world is a “concrescence of prehensions,” prehensions being the grasping or feeling of one thing by another in their on-going relations of becoming (1997, 47). Intersections Between Pragmatist and Continental Feminism
The girl repeated the name sorrowfully, but perplexedly, not grasping its full significance. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
He probably expected me to spring from the ground with the activity which these Borderers have, by constant practice, acquired in everything relating to horsemanship; but as I stood irresolute, he extended his hand, and grasping mine, bid me place my foot on the toe of his boot, and thus raised me in a trice to the croupe of his horse. Redgauntlet
At the back of the church a great stone crusader sat up on his tomb and, with much rasping of stone, thumbed his nose at the vicar. CHARMED LIFE
I just opened my mouth to try and speak and all that I could manage was a rasping croak.
And finally she flares into full loquacious life; squiffy but skewering, hardly able to open her mouth without an extraordinary sentence rasping out of it. The Last of the Duchess; 13; The Village Social – review
This ambiguous attitude makes his art cryptic: viewers are left grasping at answers.
Be careful. Those grasping taxi - drivers might charge you too much.
A bullwhacker, tightly grasping the tail of the beast, would twist him to attention. Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events
Have you never been driven to distraction by a grasping building contractor?
The ‘black’ rhinoceros has a narrow muzzle, with grasping lips, suited to browsing on leafy foliage.
This is a grasping, ambitious woman in the style of Lady Macbeth, who'll readily sacrifice people for her own gain.
Lou turns, sucking in throatfuls of rasping reality.
‘I wasn't expecting it either’ I started to say, my throat aching and rasping, dry, awkward.
What child now dares lose themselves among these rasping ghouls, whose shrouds come peeling off in leprous strips? Wine Poetry
This would seem to be a clever way of catching wrong-doers, exploiting the criminal class's essential dishonesty and grasping nature.
What is true of pursuit cannot be true of possession, no more than the child, grasping the bright ball, can deem it the most wonderful thing in the world an appraisement which it certainly made when the ball was beyond reach. The Kempton-Wace Letters
The hind toe is called the hallux, and corresponds to the thumb of the human hand, so that in grasping an object it can be made to meet any of the other toes. Our Bird Comrades
It was now a tangle of grasping arms, each with a single yellow bloodshot eye on a seven-fingered palm and upwards of eight leathery bat wings.
As I leant down, I could hear her lungs rasping for breath.
Most chitons feed by rasping algae and other encrusted food off of the rocks on which they crawl.
Rasping winds arose and a fusillade of words rained down.
She liked mixing gums and balsams more than she liked mixing rice and lentils, she liked rasping sandalwood more than she liked mending clothes. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
Seen the Camel ad witha guy racing to his shelter as a meteorite approaches, grasping nothing but his cigarette carton?
The claws of a crab are used for grasping things, especially food.
The chelicarae are medium-sized, with small pincers for grasping food, they are like miniature versions of the large claws of Pterygotus.
The Jat is a typical son of the soil, strong and sturdy, hardworking and brave, a fine soldier and an excellent farmer, but slow-witted and grasping. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
The reason that we did not treat the animals immediately after the nerve repair was to avoid the loosening of suture line on the skin caused by grasping the animals for gavage, which might cause serious inflammatory reactions.
They will keep out the growling, rasping or fluty snoring sounds from the ears of bedfellows and allow them to sleep peacefully.
His back is perfectly straight and erect, his hands behind his head, grasping at his hair, face contorted in agony.
He fell back into the water, his breath rasping in his heaving chest.
They sing a discordant series of sounds that can be alternately tuneful and rasping.
Philipa Beng MSc is part of the tragically abandoned aspirant class - I sense that she would not enjoy the company of the single mums within my circle who are uncultured, ungrateful, grasping, rude and totally cynical about their motherhood status. A Fire Raging in Islington
He must have a cold, because his voice was kind of rasping, and it helped. StarTribune.com rss feed
There are few traditional musicians in County Sligo and beyond who haven't hammered out some rasping reels or clipping hornpipes on musky summer evenings.
They trade on their rudeness, graspingness and lack of consideration and everybody knows about this before they book.
The first toe subsequently re-evolved a lower position within birds with the evolution of the grasping hallux.
Piero had no trouble grasping the difference between documentary reality and dramatization.
Old Ben's voice was rasping and slow. Bomber
The top of the thumb is covered with nose friendly fabric so you can swipe away those tickles without rasping your shnoz.
And hey, you know the rightards are grasping at straws when they start dreaming of Mr. Satan himself, the pudge in black, Muqtadr Sadr coming to rescue them! Matthew Yglesias » The Success of the Surge
The flight station was instantly filled with a deafening, rasping, angry noise, as if a chainsaw had been started at full throttle.
By grasping this projection, the cellarman could slide the bit back and forth, opening and closing the spigot.
The creeping mist coiled its tendrils round the spiky barbs like grasping fingers.
This measure will help flush out the most grasping seniors.
She hid it under the carpets to keep it from the grasping claws of her greedy brother, who was a man not averse to physical violence and who put pressure on everybody to help him service his frequent debts.
Understanding and grasping the characteristics of flocculent and flocculation mechanism. Determining the optimum conditions for flocculation.
I wanted something small with big eyes and a strong rasping tongue to lavish me with affection. Times, Sunday Times
He explained that alcohol is “a loathsome excretion of a living organism”; that it will make a civilized young man successively “become semicivilized, semisavage, savage, and, at last, below the brute”; that “nearly two-thirds of all the money in circulation in America in the course of a year” passed through the grasping hands of the liquor trust. LAST CALL
These ideas are alluded to in this affable portrait by the angelic baby grasping a toy rattle while being tenderly held by its mother.
Interpretation for Michel is not a question of disinterring the unconscious of the artist but of grasping the unconscious of the work.
I heard his breath rasping in his chest.
Michael quickly fell asleep in his bed, his hand grasping mine which was clutching back frantically.
She is not grasping in any way. Times, Sunday Times
I did not know that this covers a grasping avariciousness by the family towards the children.
I've never been fully convinced by the Wittgenstein comparison as far as grasping reality goes, since Wittgenstein, for at least large portions of his life, seemed to be pretty big on free-floating externals.
Grasping the bag she felt the soft crinkle of old parchment beneath the worn cloth.
There's no attention to the clitoris, nor is their foreplay — just this karate-chop style stuffing over and over again, usually while she's so dry you can hear her skin rasping like sandpaper. The Mysteries Of Porno
Falstaff (Christopher Benjamin), that grasping old lecher, is beaten, ridiculed and generally humiliated as usual. London Theater Journal: A Double-Header at the Globe - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
When grasping and unprincipled people begin to test the patience of the general public, I believe they have something to worry about.
He'd let it go, it was worthless to him, the companies and bonds and the woman and children, the jog-trotting on fenced roads, the vain pretentions of the country club, the petty grasping at the petticoats -- where they were worn -- of variety. Cytherea
This is "used in combination with a grasping mouth to move like an inchworm up rocks. Archive 2009-01-01
The points of my heels tapped softly against the wood floorings, the boards rasping gently with age.
He reached over and touched her hand, grasping it lightly and not saying a word.
Spread a little of the butter all over the cod's head, and then a thick coating of bread-raspings all over it; bake it for an hour in the oven. A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes
They have shown they are grasping the nettle. Times, Sunday Times
She is not grasping in any way. Times, Sunday Times
When grasping and unprincipled people begin to test the patience of the general public, I believe they have something to worry about.
Loopholes come about through the pleading of property owners who dare to suggest that there is merit to keeping private property safe from the grasping hand of power.
He reached around me, grasping the horse's reins, and spurred the creature into a gallop.
He has been transformed from a grasping, selfish, small-time operator into a decent fellow who now plays a game of ludo with the rejuvenated elders.
Lamontagne's voice is strong but with a quaver and a dry, rasping quality that hints at an inside breakability.
We persist in grasping at neat, simple answers, when we should be questioning everything.
I marvelled whither I were going; but I took his avisement, and grasping the door-sill with mine hands, I slid down into the darkness. Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution
Its extreme heat and raspingly dry climate has sent many an enterprising winemaker packing.
All the assurance and confidence she had drawn from the idea that someone was behind Melnnes soured and dissolved as she wondered, blindly, graspingly, at who was behind Lafferty. Country of the Blind
She easily captures this grasping floozy, with just a curl of her bee-stung lips and her eyes alternately vacant and cunning.
It was an agile climber, with long hind limbs for leaping, nails on its digits, and a grasping big toe.
As the laborers saw it - ‘competition forces all employers to come down to the level of the most grasping, and forces all workmen to accept the rate of pay accepted by the most necessitous.’
Finally, we address current research that suggests that motor unit synchrony across hand muscles and muscle compartments might be one of the neural mechanisms underlying the control of grasping.
No, we are concerned here with people who trust only in themselves and are never satisfied - the perennial worryguts, always grasping, always bemoaning their lot - those who fret if they can't get what they want.
James bobbed up first, treading water and grasping for a sizable slab of lumber.
In the left corner, a butcher and a blacksmith are each of them grasping a foaming tankard of porter.
Pidgin is spoken slowly and graspingly, has no formal set of rules or consistent structure, and relies heavily on the speakers' native languages.
‘Life is all about grasping opportunities,’ she says, which explains how she wound up owning a hotel.
But the purple curtains were raised, and a human head, impassible and bloated, was seen resting on a large pillow; the eyebrows, which were like arches of ebony, met each other at the points; golden dust sparkled in the frizzled hair, and the face was so wan that it looked as if it had been powdered with marble raspings. Salammbo
How odd then, that when it comes to oil so many strategists and politicians seem to find grasping the supply-demand equation so tough.
Stop grasping abstracts like "change" and "hope" and try and live up to the level of public educationand informed citizenry which America professes to be. America's Love Affair with Obama; Showing Signs of Fraying
She was holding a champagne glass, the liquid half gone, and was grasping the doorframe, her mouth in a permanent gape.
The macaques' delicate hands look remarkably human and are well adapted for grasping and holding objects.
Now the parliamentarians are grasping for the last means of arousing the people in order to win them over to their cause once again: giving back their mandate.
It rather appears that your job of spiritual adviser is being undermined by your brother, the grasping wretch.
These characterful creatures, with their rasping Ee-aw bray, are known to make excellent stable companions for horses, foals, or other donkeys.
But for Judaism, the Hebrew Bible cannot be properly understood without grasping the nuances of its original language.
Every suitor Hablet had ever proposed had been a grasping fortune hunter, although some had disguised it better than others. TREASON KEEP
First in are the sharks and hagfishes, the black eel-like creatures with radial, rasping maws that strip the flesh. Where Wonders Await Us
To breathe with a rasping sound.
I wanted something small with big eyes and a strong rasping tongue to lavish me with affection. Times, Sunday Times
‘Only if you're ready,’ Conner said, his voice rasping but firm.
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop
Rich made a rasping sound in his throat vaguely like the creaking of bed springs, followed by a lewd slurping noise.
Her eyes pleaded with him, her hand still firmly grasping his.
This is Edwin," the young man replied professionally, his oaten hands tightly grasping the phone. The Oaten Hands
Meniscal injuries were treated arthroscopically by rasping, suturing, or partial meniscectomy, according to the size and location of the lesion.
This is called marshalling the ranks where there are no ranks; baring the arms (to fight) where there are no arms to bare; grasping the weapon where there is no weapon to grasp; advancing against the enemy where there is no enemy. The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics
The forefeet have four toes, which are easily manoeuvrable and used for grasping.
This paper is a mini review of kinetic and kinematic evidence on the control of the hand with emphasis on grasping.
It was there, in a restaurant just off the main high street, that I tasted my first Portuguese table wine: a sharp, slightly fizzy white wine that was raspingly dry.
In the normal judo competition you face your opponent with your hands grasping the lapels or shoulders of his uniform.
His second, nine minutes later, was a rasping left foot drive from twenty five yards which hit the stanchion as the Castleton keeper stood mesmerised.
Thus the two extremes of nihilism (nothing exists) and eternalism (something for self-grasping to hold) are easily avoided. Principle Path to Enlightenment
Can they proceed without grasping how the great mass upsurge of 1979 brought to power a thoroughly reactionary regime?
Besides the rasping Cobain-like vocals any other trace of the alt-rock anthem of yesterday has all but faded.
A pillion is a sort of a very low-backed arm-chair, and was fastened on the horse's croup, behind the saddle, on which a man rode who had all the care of managing the horse, while the lady sat at her ease, supporting herself by grasping a belt which he wore, or passing her arm around his body, if the _gentleman was not too ticklish_. The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses
Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers 116, 418, 554 richly described patients with such hyperkinetic phenomena as rocking; twisting truncal movements; ballistic arm movements; athetoid finger and hand movements; forehead wrinkling; grimacing and pouting movements; stereotyped biting and chewing; flicking and licking of the tongue; and rubbing, picking, kneading, tapping, grasping, and pulling behaviors. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
But then you could spend decades of your life here without fully grasping the complex minutiae of the Malagasy existence.
Their true jaws are of obvious advantage for grasping prey.
Because he viewed human nature as venal, grasping, and thoroughly self-serving, he suggested that ruthless cunning is appropriate to the conduct of government. Five People Born on May 3rd | myFiveBest
This year we are grasping an even more difficult nettle, which is human rights in the two traditions. The Guardian Interview
Meanwhile, we conducted a number of high-level interviews with Silver Star for accurately grasping the company's status and development plan.
Andrew scoured the bare halls for a possible informant; quickly turning and grasping the arm of a passing soldier.
The difficulty modern people have in grasping all this can be startling; I myself experienced a small paradigm shift in my thinking while reading Waldstein's overview. 2009 Lenten Read-A-Thon Day 11
It is done by grasping a small portion of hair and gently applying traction while sliding the fingers along the hair shafts.
We plunged into the deep, narrow ravine, grasping for handholds on the sheer sidewalls, disturbing spiders' silk strands strung across the path.
I shot my first red with a pumpmaster 760 and sprinted to the neighbors cabin grasping it by the tail. Field & Stream
They have shown they are grasping the nettle. Times, Sunday Times
A hard rasping sound from around the corner caused him to drop into a tiger stance, arms hard and lithe.
The valve trigger has a pistol grip section that extends along the pistol grip portion of the handle within reach of a user's hand grasping the pistol grip portion from behind.
This bozo is just grasping for straws right now, and it is obvious. karen Obama: Jobs news 'modestly encouraging'
By grasping firmly, being careful to remove the tick's head and hypostome, or grasping jaws, the risk of disease can be greatly reduced, he said. Anderson Independent Mail Stories
It would be rather a lengthy business, and somewhat noisy at that; for on a quiet night the rasping of the chain sheets through the sheeve-holes might be heard at a considerable distance, far enough, indeed, to attract the attention of any sleepless individual in the settlement. Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship
Grasping a handful of bulrushes to steady herself, she leaned precariously out to grab it.
One thing that movement conservatives have a hard time grasping is that so-called “characterological conservatives” do not necessarily (or even frequently) have any interest or anything in common with “conservatism” as an ideological movement. Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Standing Athwart History
Grasping the solidified handle in a tight two-handed grip, she held her weapon in front of herself, glaring at her opponent in unveiled defiance.
Lilly snickered, her breath rasping and grating as she tried to move her head closer to her mistress.
‘Some of us are trying to sleep,’ I mumbled into my pillow, grasping my bedcovers and pulling them over my head just before light filled the room.
She began to fidget, clutching her peplos and grasping it tightly until her knuckles turned white.
Possibly my response had triggered something in him because the next thing I registered were Seth's hands grasping my shoulders to bring me close him, his lips brushing against mine.
You begin changing what you can about yourself to slake the thirst of a grasping world, and to settle the demons of insecurity leaping at your psyche. The Curious Case Of Michael Joseph Jackson
The openness which is supposed to be central to the work on Capitalism and Schizophrenia so far reads like a game, a multilinear text or an ergodic text, where using the parts which makes sense to you, the reader/user, is more important than grasping the entire monolith of the work. 03/01/2001 - 04/01/2001
Pigfish are members of the grunt family (Haenulidae) which are noted for the rasping or grunting sounds they make in their throat when captured on a hook or otherwise disturbed.
There's no economic theory to explain it, other than the theory that the inhabitants are grasping thieving swine.
In my mind's eye were the dirty yelling faces, the shaken fists, the hail of clods and brickbats that had knocked the Provost's hat off, the Peninsular veteran sergeant bawling to the wavering militia to hold their line, the snarling obscenities as the mob gave back sullenly before the bayonets, your correspondent near to soiling his fine Cherrypicker "breeks" with fear ... and this glowering inquisitor with his rasping voice and peeler's eyes remembered it, too. THE NUMBERS
[Greek: orexis] means literally "a grasping at or after" now as this physically may be either vague or definite, so too may the mental act, consequently the term as transferred to the mind has two uses, and denotes either the first wish, [Greek: boulaesis], or the last definite movement, Will in its strict and proper sense. Ethics
Yet, unlike so many other releases, rather than focusing on the sweetness and melody of pop music, Massimo seems to be grasping for rock instead.
When Emily discovers that actually touching things (like snow) helps her to verbalize what she is seeing, I think for a moment we're going to explore this and gain a powerful metaphor for handling words and physically grasping the world around us. Michael Giltz: Theater: "Driving Miss Daisy" Sputters, "Wings" Doesn't Soar
I told her, grasping another bale and heading back to the truck.
Grasping these `ways of thinking "has been for me a critical step in unlocking the mysteries of their very different lives. RIDDLE ME THIS
Even the worst drunks that hang out at the local bar here know that Fox news is a bunch of worn out republican journalist grasping at straws while sinking in mire. Think Progress » Fox News Slams Colbert: ‘Inappropriate,’ ‘Over the Line,’ ‘Not Very Funny’
Radical as ever, Brinkmann listens to the rasping of his lungs, from which his voice rises, wheezes, belches, whispers and shouts.
Andrew was recalled from his morbid reverie by his guide's gentle grasping at his right elbow.
A single-headed eagle, grasping a swastika, was carried on German flags and standards between 1933 and 1945.
Plastic flowers bunched in my carrier bag, eyebrows unplucked, hair greasily grasping the wind. Temporary Passport
Grasping vines, like grape, climb by grasping their support with tendrils.
When a breaking ball fell to the full forward his rasping shot came off the crossbar but he was alert to fist the rebound to the net.
James bobbed up first, treading water and grasping for a sizable slab of lumber.
In 1982, he demonstrated that the coniform elements of Phakalodus tenuis, a protoconodont, are histologically similar to the grasping spines of the living chaetognath, Sagitta.
But for the rest, and that's close on half the top 20, ambition now revolves around grasping the coat-tails of the boom-boom bandwagon and hanging on for dear life as it rattles along a road ridged around a ravine.
Eh? Is not that a more soldierly sport than kinderspiel such as hand-grasping and the like? ' Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734
He comes from an unrenowned region, has no powerful family connections, and by a somewhat bitter tongue and rasping wit has isolated himself. LEE’S LIEUTENANTS
Grasping the baton with both hands, he takes a single low bow, then turns to face the orchestra.
She marshalled her players before the game against Pannyok, speaking sternly, grasping each by the shoulder.
I don't agree with Huckabee in any way, shape, or form, but I think it's grasping to say that he has "equated" homosexuality with bestiality. Huckabee Directly Equates Homosexuality With Bestiality
Extending from one end to the other is a great concatenation of human bodies linked by their reaching, touching, grasping, and leaning, each creating a dangerous possibility of human-to-human contagion.
the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings
This was accomplished by anchoring the tissue with grasping forceps or applied suction, and removing the bronchoscope while visualizing the secured tissue as the bronchoscope passes through the upper airway.
For all his charm, his generosity, that deep, rasping cackle that rumbles through his conversation, he has a sharp edge.
Sara ran as fast as she could, her breath rasping in her throat and blood pounding in her ears.
A child who reads with expression is grasping the larger meaning, while a child who reads in a monotone is putting all his effort into deciphering the individual words and may be missing the story.

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