Example sentences for: grockle

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

  • The page heading was Jimmy and His Grockle , so Mr Rivers was able to validate and localize the memory that had floated to the surface of his mind in the mid 1950s.

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

  • In Cornwall the word emmet is used with exactly the same meaning and is likewise labelled mildly disparaging by the OED , which gives two citations, both of which include grockle , from 1975 and 1984.

  • But I personally would speculate that the unknown creator of Jimmy and his Grockle in the early 1930s keew the sort of word that resonates in children's memories.

  • 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 .


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