Scratchy

My throat feels dry and raw and scratchy.

I've had a scratchy throat since this morning. I wonder if I've caught a cold.

My throat is scratchy.

The blanket is scratchy.

His towels are scratchy.

I fill up my humidifier, pull down the blind over my window, and tuck myself in between a pair of well-worn, scratchy cotton sheets.

An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

The FM station two hundred miles away was receivable, but the audio was too scratchy to positively identify.

Once he almost fell asleep, and then the little record player started up in his mother and father's bedroom. Mom was playing her scratchy Elvis 45s again.

'Now, now, don't get scratchy,' said Casali. 'You've got enough troubles of your own. […]