1.   A gruff male voice bade them enter.

2.   You listen to his gruff voice giving orders to his crew as they row him out to his ketch.

3.   He spoke in a gruff voice.

4.   WITH his broad, malleable face, his gruff northern voice and razor sharp humour, Les Dawson, who died yesterday, was a king of comedians.

5.   An accompanying gruff voice grunted, asking for a name.

6.   Butler said his famously gruff singing voice is the result of pushing himself on stage.

7.   CBS figures a baby with an adult sensibility and a gruff voice might be an amusing central character in a prime-time sitcom.

8.   For correspondents and freelance writers around the country, his gruff voice at the end of the telephone was often the voice of The Times.

9.   He is described by people who know him as an imposing figure with graying hair, tobacco-stained teeth and a gruff voice.

10.   His gruff voice will rise as he banters with passing tourists.