throaty
He accelerated hard, the engine humming throatily.
"I know," he whispered throatily.
"I'm sorry to say that I'm almost as bad as you," I replied, and we both chuckled throatily.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Describing qualities of the human voice
adenoidal
aloud
be dripping with somethingidiom
boomy
bray
breathy
brittle
chocolatey
fruity
multi-voiced
nasality
nasally
pitchy
purringly
soft-spoken
stentorian
strangulated
toned
toneless
wispily

Examples of throatily

throatily
The robot voice, whose only concession to human or dinosaur speech was a throatily serrated edge, came from a speaker somewhere below and behind the counter.
From Foreign Policy
He was too surprised to do anything save drink it, gulping it throatily and handing back the glass with a grunt.
From Project Gutenberg
He shook off her kindness and laughed throatily.
From Project Gutenberg
The first-come scavenger growled throatily and lumbered toward the interlopers, plainly taking heart from their air of harmless stupidity.
From Project Gutenberg
The voice throbbed throatily and robot eyes grew round.
From Project Gutenberg
The girl's voice broke throatily, and she turned abruptly toward the river.
From Project Gutenberg
She laughed throatily, breaking the suspense.
From Project Gutenberg
She could hear him chuckle throatily.
From Project Gutenberg
Then he laughed throatily and started after her--she having retreated behind the table, where she stood, watching him, her eyes wide, her face dead white.
From Project Gutenberg
I suppose that college was to me, as to most subfreshman, a place of green swards and track meets and those musical harmonies which glee clubs can so throatily accomplish.
From Project Gutenberg
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