growl

Example Sentences

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When Mr. Cameron’s Na’vi growl and bare their teeth at one another, they come across as campy and catty critters—“Real Housewives of Pandora.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 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

The object of his growl was a journalist who spent two years battling him on the Dodgers beat.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2025

She dropped into her gravelly Cookie Monster growl for the answer: “Brown food tastes good.”

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2025

The wind picked up as the sun went behind a cloud, and there was a growl of thunder.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo