His gritty voice took "Electric Avenue" to the top 10 twice.

He has a very big gritty voice that carried over any amount of orchestral storm without apparent effort.

"Chris," I finally managed to whisper in the strangest, gritty voice, "something is the matter with me."

All random doubts were cleared when he said in a voice gritty and low, "You look beautiful sitting there like that."

"It's your older son calling from New York," he said in that stiff, gritty voice.

Harley asked in a gritty voice: "Why did you put me in with them?"

"Someone has been homesteading," said Channing in a gritty voice.

She is formidable and charming, with a gritty, jaunty voice.

And at last an old, gritty voice came over a speaker and said, "Now."