Example sentences for: grockle

How can you use “grockle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There have been various attempts to illuminate the uncertain origin of grockle , from the fanciful to the plausible.

  • However, Jimmy and his Grockle had started in 1932 as a conventional serial story in another Thomson children's publication, The Rover , before being tracslated into picture strip form in 1937.

  • This was the first national publicity for the hitherto local expression, and the OED's first citation of grockle is, in fact, from Flims & Fliming , 31 October 1964, extracted from a review of what is presumably The System .

  • Mr Rivers' assistant, Freddie Fly, wrote an Ode to the Grockle and the coaches bringing the tourists were christened grockle wagons .

  • The old lady and the three equally diminutive adults and two small children in her North Country group regularly visited the boating-lake during their holiday, and the staff took a fancy to the expression Mr Rivers had used and would say things like Your grockle family's here and so on.


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