How to Use growl in a Sentence

growl

1 of 2 verb

• I could hear a dog growling behind me.
• He's always growling about the government.
• My stomach's been growling all morning.
• Maybe you’ve been surprised by the fear that’s growled and snarled from the back of your head.
  — Jenny Sharaf, The Cut, 25 June 2018
• The dog began to growl at Hadley as the rescuer drew near.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
• Turn a crank and the man groaned and waved one arm over his mouth while the animal growled.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
• Don and Jan Schultz were fast asleep in their New Iberia home when their dog began to growl.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 6 July 2023
• There was a far-off purring or growling noise on the horizon, with what looks to be a dark cloud.
  — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2018
• Beau growled at the newcomer, and for a moment, my heart was in my throat.
  — Doree Shafrir, Vox, 9 July 2019
• Go ahead and make your ringtone the audio of Sam Heughan growling that last bit.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 11 Apr. 2018
• That solved the problem of my growling stomach, but the headaches and spacey feeling were still there.
  — Ashley Edwards Walker, Good Housekeeping, 2 Mar. 2018
• And not just those who came because their stomachs growled.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 2 Feb. 2020
• Shirley-Girl ignores her mostly, but has growled and played many times.
  — cleveland.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• When the man took out a knife, appearing to attempt to cut one of the leashes, Eli growled and the man stabbed the dog, Cornwell said.
  — Nicki Brown, CNN, 19 June 2023
• Two, in kingly red velour robes across their backs, growled at each other.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 6 May 2023
• There’s the simple fact that your growling, crampy stomach can wake you up.
  — Nina Bahadur, SELF, 11 Aug. 2018
• Suddenly, the camera pans to show one of the bears charging toward the group of tourists who, taking the lead of the guide, start to growl and yell.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023
• Just steps away from the dog in the garage, a second barked and growled through the open window of a barren second floor room next door to the Strauther home.
  — Kat Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2019
• Sensing the commotion and chaos, Aries began to hiss and growl.
  — Brett Steenbarger, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• Watch the video — by the last verse, he’s gone full Alice, with the growling vocals that make the records and performances so great.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 2 Apr. 2018
• This isn't a show with riffs that get into your bones or growls that stir your soul or any of those old rock cliches.
  — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2018
• Why growl at Midge’s icebox parenting, which the show sees as adorable?
  — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
• The clip begins with the bears growling and roaring at each other, while standing in a ditch.
  — Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com, 24 Sep. 2019
• The bears growl and grunt at each other while using their jaws and paws as weapons to batter each other.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 27 Feb. 2023
• Christmas morning is a treat for the ears, almost enough to drown out the growling bellies.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 18 Dec. 2019
• Neither will support dogs that growl at, jump on or try to bite other fliers.
  — Joe Marusak, charlotteobserver, 14 May 2018
• Ribeiro made a growling face while Maksim made a zombie face.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
• Krypto had always been the sweetest of all the Fisher-Paulsons, the one of us guaranteed not to bark or growl back.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2018
• My stomach felt empty, every growling pang a sign that my body was mourning the loss of carrying another human, and longed to be filled again.
  — Hetty Lui McKinnon, Bon Appétit, 19 Feb. 2024
• Colman Domingo growls appealingly as some sort of crime boss, but who is his character?
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024

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growl

2 of 2 noun

• We could hear a growl of thunder in the distance.
• The dog gave a menacing growl.
• He answered my question with a growl.
• Now the man says, in his soft growl, The front wheel’s stuck in mud.
  — Rebecca Curtis, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• The first growl had come from behind us, at the end of the beach.
  — Mariana Enriquez, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
• The inked fighter with the nasty growl is in no mood to die.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2024
• The bear let out a growl and tore off into the thick brush.
  — Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 17 Nov. 2020
• Does the thought of a swamp rat make your stomach growl?
  — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2021
• The flat-six fires with a gruff growl, then settles to a breathy idle.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2021
• The boar announced its presence with a growl and charged the two men through the brush.
  — Cameron Evans, Outdoor Life, 6 July 2023
• His desire to hug and kiss the dog is sometimes met with a growl.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2020
• This is about the growl around the dinner table and the running over the rooftops, screaming.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2021
• Drive it hard, though, and plenty of flat-four growl can still be heard through the firewall.
  — Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 5 Dec. 2022
• Once the weird burning smell from the room’s heater went away, I was lulled to sleep by its gentle growl.
  — Crystal Paul, The Seattle Times, 7 Aug. 2018
• The answer wasn’t so much a word as a growl and maybe a gallon of green, sticky vomit.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2023
• Then and now, there is no lid for hip hop’s sound, no cage for its platinum growl.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 7 Aug. 2023
• Thick carpeting muffles the low growl of the engine and the tireless smacking of the waves on the hull.
  — Ian Urbina, The Atlantic, 6 May 2021
• Kate could sing a ballad but also whoop it up and toss off a throaty growl.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2021
• Then, suddenly, a solid sound filled the curve of the street, a deep growl that became a roar.
  — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• To reduce inflation, the Fed must show its teeth and growl.
  — Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
• The voice—more like a growl piped in from a rough night in 1976—belonged to the filmmaker Paul Schrader.
  — Michael Schulma, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• There’s no subwoofer, and two speakers can’t reach that low-end growl on their own.
  — Chris Welch, The Verge, 29 Nov. 2018
• Even better, the unique, deeper growl of the 1100 sounds just like what you’d dream this metal beast would sound like.
  — Fortune, 27 June 2018
• The growl of a throat-clear, sounding almost gratified, came down the line.
  — Colin Barrett, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• There’s the churning of sediment, the hums, grunts and growls of fishes and turtles.
  — Shreya Dasgupta, Quartz India, 21 Nov. 2019
• At his feet is the lion, sleek, alert, tail curled like a scimitar, mouth opened wide in a growl.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2019
• Their distinctive calls are a mixture of barks, growls and grunts.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
• And one of the growls that sounds like me is actually Rosalía.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2023
• Pulling away does nothing but elicit a snorting growl and a tighter clamp.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2018
• Over the Cat’s growl, Switalski asked Cahill to stick a willow here, to loosen the soil there, to leave this sapling but uproot that one.
  — Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024