grumbling

Example Sentences

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Back on Tasman Drive, tourists excitedly posed for pictures next to a speed bump sign as a grumbling resident glared at them.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

Macron also weighed in the president’s grumbling about leaving NATO.

From Salon • Apr. 2, 2026

Koichi Nakano, associate professor of political science at Sophia University, says that despite initial grumbling when the snap election was announced, the LDP appears to be riding high on the prime minister's popularity.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

One insider told me: "Defence spending is a proper wound now - it's not just the chiefs grumbling."

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

Dad had already left for work, and Layla was grumbling over the chemistry homework she’d left undone.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake