Example Sentences

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The IOC grumblingly suggested in response to the ruling that the court was being excessively tough, requiring “an even higher threshold on the necessary level of evidence” than it had done in the past.

From Washington Times • Feb. 1, 2018

Drew needs to fake a Bermuda tan in order to convince his fiancée that he’s been away, so he grumblingly strips off his shirt, and Regi turns a sun lamp on him.

From The New Yorker • May 2, 2016

That is where most British voters, grudgingly respectful of the market because aspirational, grumblingly demanding of the state because used to being nannyed by it, reside.

From Economist • May 14, 2015

Around 11am, Mrs Dicker grumblingly walked me the mile back to our house.

From The Guardian • Sep. 20, 2014

Will grumblingly accepted the southern half of the valley as his exclusive area, and within fifteen years the valley was two-deep in Fords and Will was a rich man driving a Marmon.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck