grouse

Example Sentences

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Young people grouse that employers are monitoring their productivity with “surveillance state technologies” and expect them to “do six jobs in a 40-hour workweek.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

There was nothing I could grouse about, and I simply admired a good game played.

From Salon • Oct. 29, 2025

Experts believe that thousands of animals and other wildlife were killed in the flames - including curlew, grouse chicks and hares.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025

What’s the point of working so hard at this if I’m not honored? he might grouse.

From Slate • Oct. 10, 2025

Half-filling Renn’s cooking skin with water, he hung it by the fire; then, using a split branch, he dropped in red-hot stones to heat it up, and added the plucked and jointed willow grouse.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver