How to Use disgruntle in a Sentence

disgruntle

verb

• The man in the moon’s disgruntled face sports an oversize space capsule stuck in his right eye.
  — John Scott Lewinski, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2009
• The offense did just fine the disgruntled Martavis Bryant benched.
  — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2017
• Some disgruntled voices spoke of how city cops were among the lowest paid in the region.
  — Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 11 Dec. 2017
• DiFranco was disgruntled with his back-to-back 3-over-par rounds.
  — Brett Christie, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2017
• But if his last contribution to the club is to help win the European Cup, not many can be left feeling disgruntled.
  — SI.com, 24 May 2018
• Artan had told the co-worker several times that fall he was disgruntled with school and wanted to drop out, according to the records.
  — Associated Press, cleveland.com, 1 June 2017
• Then staff at the parent firm get disgruntled with their rule-breaking peers—who, for their part, have not been given the budget to build anything sizeable.
  — The Economist, 20 July 2019
• Many have noted that Prince Charles walking Meghan down the aisle is a sweet gesture, while others are disgruntled that Meghan’s mother will not be the one walking her down the aisle.
  — Kim Quindlen, Teen Vogue, 18 May 2018
• For those who remember, a disgruntled Dillon threw all his equipment into the stands on his way out at the conclusion of the 2004 season.
  — Paul Dehner Jr., Cincinnati.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• The investors only became disgruntled after oil prices started to plunge in 2014, the statement said.
  — Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, 3 Feb. 2020
• That would be a swell strategy, except for the fact that most disgruntled Republicans — even the ones alarmed by Donald Trump — tend to find the Democrats scarier still.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 27 Oct. 2017
• Complaining about Amazon, and Bezos, isn’t a mere pastime for the disgruntled.
  — Tyrone Beason / Columnist, The Seattle Times, 8 Oct. 2018
• Now, if Jimmy were to join the disgruntled, that would be a completely different story.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Oct. 2019
• If the trend continues to spread, fans may become a little disgruntled at paying full price but missing out on seeing big names.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2016
• Williams, disgruntled over Washington’s medical staff, has not yet played in a game this season.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• On Saturdays in the springtime here, a group of those players will gather at a teammate’s home, disgruntled with the lack of nightclubs in town, and turn a Slip ’N Slide into a front-yard drinking game.
  — Sam McDowell, kansascity, 25 Oct. 2017
• Were the murders a gruesome act of vengeance by a disgruntled, former employee targeting Tom's parents – the Hunters?
  — CBS News, 6 May 2017
• His role in finally ending the use of the gold standard during the Nixon administration still leaves some disgruntled.
  — Erik Sherman, Fortune, 10 Dec. 2019
• This one disgruntled New York lawyer almost single-handedly brought down the president,’ David Brock [once wrote].
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 15 May 2017
• The easy thing to do would be to dismiss the film, the subjects, and their claims; to spread disinformation about them as lazy, disgruntled, troublemaking officers.
  — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2018
• To soothe the disgruntled, the government has promised tens of billions of ringgit to poorer people, veterans, entrepreneurs and others.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• McDonald: There’s a better chance of that happening now than there appeared to be last summer, when Aldridge was disgruntled and requesting a trade.
  — Jim Lefko, San Antonio Express-News, 18 May 2018
• Like Padgett, Hahn was careful not to feel too disgruntled after early misfires.
  — Katherine Fitzgerald, azcentral, 15 June 2018
• One disgruntled Evertonian - and there are countless right now - took the time out to compare the two manager's records over their last nine matches, and the data doesn't make for good reading.
  — SI.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• Throughout the current campaign Conte has come across disgruntled and agitated, and has frequently complained about the state of his squad.
  — SI.com, 1 Apr. 2018
• In a video that has gone viral since it was shared on Reddit on Sunday, the camera pans down a line of five smiling Tormund doppelgängers to reveal a disgruntled Brienne standing in their midst.
  — Megan McCluskey, Time, 4 Nov. 2019
• The Mail on Sunday, published the next day, featured a front-page interview with Ms. Markle’s uncle, who was also disgruntled about not being invited.
  — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 1 May 2018
• Ride-sharing companies fear the prospect of higher fares for the public and lower wages for the already disgruntled, sometimes demonstrating drivers.
  — William B Gould, The Mercury News, 2 July 2019
• Rooney has allegedly expressed his desire to stay at Everton and is disgruntled at the way the club have made his summer exit a priority.
  — SI.com, 5 June 2018
• Colbert had perhaps the most fun with that, recruiting Christine Baranski to play Collins’s disgruntled, wine-swilling wife.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 15 Feb. 2017

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