growl
Example Sentences
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"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
It came to life with the inimitable growl of a vintage straight four that took me back to my teenage self with a rush of sadness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 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
I knelt on my bed, burying my tears into my jacket until I started to growl.
From Slate • May 19, 2025
“Hey, bro,” Zed yelled over the hum of the electric garage door opener and the growl of the lawn mower’s engine as I drove out, “wouldja lend me a coupla bucks?”
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
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