grumbled

Example Sentences

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Grumbled a middle-aged woman overcome by price paralysis: "What a nightmare!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Grumbled a prominent Iranian in private: "You would think they are both trying to get the Shah elected Prime Minister."

From Time Magazine Archive

Grumbled one bishop: "He was harkening back to an orthodoxy that I thought we had passed by years ago."

From Time Magazine Archive

Grumbled Reagan: "A challenger can't promise highways and hospitals."

From Time Magazine Archive

Loud were their clamouring tongues, as when The clanging sea-fowl leave the fen, And, with their cries discordant mixed, Grumbled and yelled the pipes betwixt.

From Marmion by Morley, Henry