growl
Example Sentences
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When Mr. Cameron’s Na’vi growl and bare their teeth at one another, they come across as campy and catty critters—“Real Housewives of Pandora.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
"I'd forget I was dressed as Salt, he'd growl and I'd think: 'Oh yeah, I'm blue'."
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025
She dropped into her gravelly Cookie Monster growl for the answer: “Brown food tastes good.”
From Salon • Sep. 4, 2025
Its enormous, melancholy and melodic sound pulls from electronic music, jazz, hip-hop and ambient, landing between the dazed crunch of Deftones and growl of Meshuggah, sharing Gen Z’s genre-agnostic outlook.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2025
Master Wingfield answers Captain Smith in a low growl.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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