Example sentences for: grumbling

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

  • Sometimes the words we use are the sounds of the communicating: whispering, cackling, prattling, chuckling, chortling, mumbling, grumbling.

  • Critics resumed grumbling that CEOs are overpaid.

  • There was much grumbling in the ranks about this question but, if imperfect, it does rest on a solid theoretical foundation.

  • At the precise moment that I was declaring (really revisiting) my reverence for the great director, the elderly couple sitting next to me was grumbling:

  • Reporters' appetites have been whetted by 1) ever-louder grumbling among House Republicans that the GOP leadership botched the fight with Clinton on disaster relief and the budget; 2) an anonymous "Dear Colleague" letter urging a no-confidence vote on Gingrich; 3) a demand by 50 House conservatives (on Gingrich's birthday) that the Republican caucus halt the leadership's drift to the center; and 4) House Majority Leader Dick Armey's failure to defend Gingrich.


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