grumble
Example Sentences
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A few people grumbled, but I made it through the door and headed down the hallway toward home.
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“Whether they have been, are, may be, are not, or will be ‘engaged’ can be nobody’s business but their own …” Greeley grumbled.
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I grumbled as I walked over and sat down by Daisy’s side.
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I walked behind Red while my stomach grumbled with each footstep, the chant of food, food, food.
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“These people believe that you take the scab off of a wound and take it off again and again until something miraculous happens,” Boritt grumbles to the camera.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.