grumbled
Example Sentences
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"They're showing them something that's no longer here," he grumbled.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
But his internal critics long privately grumbled, and more recently increasingly publicly grumbled that this amounted to him all too often not being able to articulate what he did believe.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Some of the criticism may be filtering up to the president, who has grumbled that Iran is still throttling most shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2026
Newman once grumbled to his friend and fellow artist Adolph Gottlieb.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
He’d grumbled a bit earlier about the German folks from the Lutheran church playing.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
