ratchety

Glistening with tubular bells and tamtam, with rasping, ratchety interjections from güiro and other noisy percussion, the work builds to a sinister but voluptuous climax.

LPO/Alsop; Varèse 360° 2010

Someone who would take her hand in his hand, or his tentacle, or his ratchety claw, and say gently, firmly, “Dolores—Dolores—everything is going to be all right.”

Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger! M. T. Anderson 2010

Someone who would take her hand in his hand, or his tentacle, or his ratchety claw, and say gently, firmly, “Dolores—Dolores—everything is going to be all right.”

Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger! M. T. Anderson 2010

Not exactly dream casting as the captain and star of the controversial Springboks, Mr. Damon first sounds French, then like a ratchety-voiced Afrikaner in a patois that is hard to understand, and almost always out of place.

I'm Cheering for Morgan Freeman 2009

Not exactly dream casting as the captain and star of the controversial Springboks, Mr. Damon first sounds French, then like a ratchety-voiced Afrikaner in a patois that is hard to understand, and almost always out of place.

I'm Cheering for Morgan Freeman 2009

Add the rhythmic, ratchety sound of a guiro, along with a singer or two, and you have a basic parranda.

A Quaff Fit for 3 Kings 2007

They can be scraped together, like a bow on the strings of a fiddle, to produce a ratchety squeak by which a female signals her young.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

They can be scraped together, like a bow on the strings of a fiddle, to produce a ratchety squeak by which a female signals her young.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

The hidden animals went crazy, setting up a din of shrieks, howls, and ratchety buzzing.

Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

He found the squabbling blue jays interesting, but the pileated woodpecker annoyed him with its ratchety cry.

The Cat Who Sang For The Birds Braun, Lilian Jackson 1998