Valente is known for his highly characteristic raucous rasping tone.

Occasionally, a raucous tone and rowdy jokes mark the proceedings.

He had recognized the raucous tone of the shout; he knew, too, that the boat's arrival was a ruse.

With the last, the six soldiers began to sing in raucous tones, though not the words Rand knew.

It had a more raucous tone than the older models built.

The singers work hard to adopt working-class British vowel sounds and to project with a raucous, strident tone when appropriate.

Her raucous tones stung the already overworked barman into further activity.

What is it in this music - with its jeering, raucous tone, its studied vulgarity - that so excites our senses?

As the raucous tone cut through the hubbub she leaned forward and turned it off, leaning on her forearms.

What's neither inevitable nor acceptable is the raucous tone and unruly language the members of the new majority direct even against each other.