growl

Example Sentences

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Mr. Waits is terrific here, his growl of a voice put to gentle use as a solitary person evidently glad and endearingly nervous to see his children.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

"I'd forget I was dressed as Salt, he'd growl and I'd think: 'Oh yeah, I'm blue'."

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025

Its enormous, melancholy and melodic sound pulls from electronic music, jazz, hip-hop and ambient, landing between the dazed crunch of Deftones and growl of Meshuggah, sharing Gen Z’s genre-agnostic outlook.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2025

I knelt on my bed, burying my tears into my jacket until I started to growl.

From Slate • May 19, 2025

The hellhound stands at my side with a smoky growl to make my point.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas