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  • adjective comparative form of hoarse: more hoarse

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Examples

  • Another rumble, hoarser and more ominous than before, lifted itself and hushed the robins and the squirrels.

    CHAPTER 23 2010

  • There were lip-exclamations of approval on the part of the women, and hoarser notes of confirmation came from the men.

    Chapter 5: The Philomaths 2010

  • She…one day on a walk near the Potomac, she kept yelling the names of her two dogs, who had taken off unexpectedly on their own; she got hoarser and hoarser—as if they were the ones in danger.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • She…one day on a walk near the Potomac, she kept yelling the names of her two dogs, who had taken off unexpectedly on their own; she got hoarser and hoarser—as if they were the ones in danger.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • She…one day on a walk near the Potomac, she kept yelling the names of her two dogs, who had taken off unexpectedly on their own; she got hoarser and hoarser—as if they were the ones in danger.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles DickensDickens's last novel is set in the precincts of the cathedral of Cloisterham. "… a city of another and a bygone time is Cloisterham, with its hoarse Cathedral bell, its hoarse rooks hovering about the Cathedral tower, its hoarser and less distinct rooks in the stalls far beneath."

    Ten of the best 2011

  • She…one day on a walk near the Potomac, she kept yelling the names of her two dogs, who had taken off unexpectedly on their own; she got hoarser and hoarser—as if they were the ones in danger.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • So she opened her mouth, closed it again, and then somehow, her voice even hoarser than usual, got the words out.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • She could hear his breathing, hoarser and louder than it had been.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • She could hear his breathing, hoarser and louder than it had been.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

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