Example Sentences

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"One day in the dugout I asked him –- why are you always such a grumbler? And he told me about the tragedy with his family. From that time, we grew very close."

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

But Wilkinson was equally persuasive as a working-class grumbler, which is what made him such a terrific secret weapon in the hit 1997 comedy “The Full Monty.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2023

Resolve one person's grumbles, and potentially create another grumbler.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2023

Logan is both a world-class grumbler with a crotchety disdain for what used to be called multiculturalism and a stiletto-sharp stylist with appealing allergies to cant and special pleading.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2018

The grumbler can be pacified by a word or chastened by a rebuke; but a man burning under a sense of real injustice and wrong will never be efficient again until his injuries are redressed.

From The Lighter Side of School Life by Hay, Ian