How to Use grumble in a Sentence

grumble

verb

• Fans grumbled about the team's poor play.
• There's been a lot of grumbling among the employees.
• Some of the customers have been grumbling about poor service.
• We could hear thunder grumbling in the distance.
• The hype has caused some grumbling among the more old-school parts of the mineral world.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
• Fans are grumbling about the state of the program, but that’s not new, either.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2024
• The kids would rehearse slightly out-of-tune songs, grumbling on the side.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
• The older fans may still grumble, but most seem to still watch each week.
  — Greg Engle, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• The newcomers didn’t abide by the rules of the water, the locals grumbled.
  — Amy Qin Callaghan O’Hare, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
• There’s no one to grumble with when the ump makes a bad call and, worse, no one to celebrate with when the ball sails out of the park.
  — Alan Smolinisky, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2020
• Parisians are already grumbling about the crowds for this summer’s Olympics.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• And activists have grumbled that the party did not put enough muscle to get the bill over the finish line.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 12 June 2023
• The people of Kawama grumble that too much land has been sold to mining firms.
  — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2020
• A lot of hunters grumble that deer hunting with dogs ruins the rest of their season or burns their best spots.
  — Adam Moore, Outdoor Life, 23 Jan. 2023
• Fans and team analysts earned the right to grumble about the perennial .500 (or worse) team.
  — Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2023
• Having grumbled our gripes, a number of niceties stand out, too.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 24 Apr. 2023
• The more lethargic ones grumbled, smacking their teeth.
  — Hazlitt, 7 Dec. 2022
• No one, of course, is going to grumble about getting a five-figure bonus.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 3 Feb. 2023
• What’s more, female Gen Zers were 13% more likely than men to grumble that their salaries haven’t kept up with the pace of living.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
• Why grumble about a 401(k) when so much is so unstable?
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 31 July 2020
• Asked to volunteer in his stead, the men grumble about the near-suicidal odds of success and look away.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 15 Feb. 2022
• The president gets to appoint people to the Fed, but then gets to quietly grumble about them like the rest of us.
  — David Goldman, CNN, 31 May 2022
• Soon enough, the Cleveland grounds crew rolled out the mowers, driving them back and forth across the infield right in front of a grumbling Perry.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 20 June 2023
• As such, there have been a growing number of stories in which Democrats gripe and grumble that Biden’s age is a problem.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Feb. 2023
• While the older kid was grumbling, the 3-year-old was biking around happily.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• But Douglas, rarely one to grumble, did his best to stay positive.
  — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
• Lucifer's definitely not there yet, and he and God grumble at each other over his lack of a desk in the precinct.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 28 May 2021
• Either the Pac-12 is going to strike a decent TV deal sometime by the end of March or else there will be louder grumbling.
  — Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2023
• Consumers have grumbled, but have so far been willing to keep paying up.
  — Byrachyl Jones, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2023
• Players couldn't grumble from the bench about ball and strike calls without getting the attention of the home plate umpire.
  — Star Tribune, 13 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024