growled

“Look, if I don’t win this thing after all this talk, I’m in trouble — will you please go and vote,” the Republican growled to an audience Sunday in Greensboro, North Carolina, where polls show him in a statistical dead-heat with the Democratic nominee.

A Harley growled through the town square the other day.

“As a farmer, you have just been turned into a number,” growled Eduard Van Overstraeten, who said that of the 60 hectares he used to farm for wheat, corn and potatoes, he now was forced to sell a quarter of it — including his farmhouse — to help make a string of distinct woods around Brussels to become one continuous nature zone to improve biodiversity and fight pollution.

I add, ’cause Cocoa growled at me.

“The princess awaits,” the wolf growled, still almost smiling.