What is "breathy"

Usage examples of "breathy".

Nearby she could hear Harim and Alagh contentedly chomping the rich grass and giving the occasional breathy snort.

The soft breathy sound of it seemed to come from nowhere and everywhere, all at once, a resonant wave of slow, stately notes, one falling after the other, rolling into a melody that was at once hauntingly strange and heartachingly familiar.

He seemed not to notice her reaction, her breathy panting, the spasming, jerking movement of her legs.

Her mouth opened on a breathy sigh, her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth.

He laughed as he worked: a light, breathy and altogether horrible sound.

I found my voice, it was breathy, scared, but there was nothing I could do about it.

Her voice, Fedesha thought, was not as pleasing as the rest of her - thin and breathy, and rather flat, even in her fright.

It was her fight, breathy laughter that wound its way around his soul.

A voice, a whisper, breathy and girlish, came not from the room, but from everywhere, as though the walls were breathing it into his ear.

The woman's breathy whisper was barely audible, but it wasn't the sound of her voice Char worried about.

Brianne listened to her sister's light, breathy laugh as she spoke, but sensed her heart wasn't in the normal easy teasing of their relationship.

He was experimenting with the still useless combinant once again, his first attempt with it in days, when there came a sound of reed-flute music from the corridor, the breathy, toneless music that had some special significance for the Indigenes, and then an Indigene of obvious grandeur and rank entered the room, a personage who very likely was the chieftain of the village, or perhaps the high priest, if they had such things as high priests.

Captain Meterios said in a breathy voice, but she was back down in the contralto register.

So Babygirl tossed her shimmering cinnamon curls and prettily pouted, revealed her dazzling white smile, in a breathy sing-song she recited the sweet iambic verse she had composed for this very occasion.

Finally it repeated the song Ofelia had sung to the babies, in a voice she realized must be hers, though it sounded breathier, more like an old woman’s voice than she heard it inside.