(v. i.) To murmur or mutter with discontent; to make ill-natured complaints in a low voice and a surly manner.
(v. i.) To growl; to snarl in deep tones; as, a lion grumbling over his prey.
(v. i.) To rumble; to make a low, harsh, and heavy sound; to mutter; as, the distant thunder grumbles.
(v. t.) To express or utter with grumbling.
(n.) The noise of one that grumbles.
(n.) A grumbling, discontented disposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Should I man up, chuck out the Union flags and get back to grumbling about the Games?
(2) I have weekly massages to iron out all the bumps and grumbles in my legs.
(3) But the huge shortfalls, and the grumblings of African countries, are not going to matter as much in Washington as the fact that Obama can claim that he went face to face with China – and won.
(4) Although, among jobbing-actor roles in series such as Casualty, Lovejoy and Inspector Morse, he also appeared in the Dennis Potter drama Cream in My Coffee (1980), with Peggy Ashcroft; a TV version of Mr Jekyll and Hyde (1990) and Ending Up (1989), based on the Kingsley Amis novel about old buffers going grumbling to their doom.
(5) No: people want to see live animals!” The purists will grumble.
(6) The couple were not married, and there were grumblings that, with no official status as first lady, she should not be spending money on her five personal assistants and the running of an independent office in the Elysée.
(7) Stop grumbling about renewables and unlock the opportunities they offer.
(8) The companies would be in no position to grumble about unfair tactics since they are guilty of worse.
(9) West Ham's manager of three years, who steered the team to a 13th-place finish this season after flirting with relegation for long periods, held talks with the co-chairman David Sullivan on Tuesday amid grumbling supporters' discontent at the style of football the side have played.
(10) Shirburn grumbled, Ayer apologised, the tanks rolled on.
(11) "Diane sold her principles by sending her kids to private school and spending a lot of time on the box cosying up to Michael Portillo, making comments for the sake of projection on TV," one grumbled, anonymously, yesterday.
(12) Starting with the visit of Canadian rivals Toronto FC , who grumbled their way through last week’s home defeat by KC and whose mood won’t have been improved by a 3-0 thrashing in DC in midweek.
(13) "Bilge," he grumbled when another student wanted to know about his links with a lobbying firm that later worked for Colonel Gaddafi.
(14) They'd grumble, but that's business, as it happens every day.
(15) Since Peter Hall was allowed leaves of absence for other projects by sometimes grumbling chairmen ( as charted in his published Diaries ), there has been an emphasis on the job being full-time.
(16) There were authors grumbling about not going to the Oscars .
(17) Recent collaboration between traditionally fractious teaching unions to oppose cuts to the school rebuilding programme gained more traction than the usual grumbles about pay because it spoke to parents as well as professionals.
(18) He has grumbled a lot about obstruction by the civil service, but not actually done much about it.
(19) English friends had explained to me, not without pride, the importance of grumbling to the national character, but I still want to stress to every Londoner I meet that — take it from a visiting Los Angeleno — the tube exists, and that counts as no trifling achievement.
(20) Jeremy Hunt grumbled that because patients would not know their out-of-hours doctors, they would opt to go to A&E instead.
Mitch
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) She expressed her condolences to Winehouse's parents, Mitch and Janis, who did not attend the inquest, marking the loss of "a talented woman at such a young age".
(2) Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority and minority leaders, held two lengthy meetings on Monday in an attempt to nail down terms of a possible compromise.
(3) Earlier this primary season, Tea Party-aligned candidates lost a series of high-profile battles, including in Georgia, North Carolina and Kentucky, where there was a failed attempt to overthrow the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell.
(4) "A couple of years into Obama's first term, Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, said: our priority, as the Republican party, is to make sure Obama is a one-term president .
(5) "This has electrified the country," said the Republican senate leader Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky.
(6) Kickstarting what is expected to be a concerted effort to undermine the accord over the next two months, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate majority leader, accused the White House of “reaching the best deal acceptable to Iran, rather than actually advancing our national goal”.
(7) McConnell v Federal Election Commission, 2003 Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell and others challenged the McCain-Feingold legislation in 2003 in the supreme court.
(8) Senators Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell worked through the weekend to find a way to raise the debt ceiling and re-open government.
(9) Both developments represent a remarkable capitulation for the Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who had initially sought to simply extend the Patriot Act provisions, despite overwhelming support in the House of Representatives for the USA Freedom Act.
(10) Let’s say Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell strike a deal today ( that’s looking unlikely ).
(11) His regular punching bags get patented nicknames: Lindsey Graham is “goober”, John McCain is “John McPain”, and he once called Mitch McConnell “ The Benedict Arnold of the US Senate ”.
(12) The Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, attempted to reconcile the competing tensions on Wednesday by portraying the bill not so much as one aimed at trying to prevent another Wall Street crisis as opening the way for what he said would be an endless round of the hated bank bailouts.
(13) Introducing the bill on Wednesday, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said: “This bill will ensure that taxpayer dollars that are supposed to be spent on women’s health are, in fact, spent on women’s health.” Planned Parenthood, which points out that abortions represent only a fraction of the healthcare services it provides to women nationwide, says that of $1.3bn in revenue last year, $528m came from taxpayers, including state funds that help finance Medicaid.
(14) "When Fred Perry came to us to ask what we would like to do with the new collection, it was natural to continue," said the singer's father Mitch Winehouse.
(15) We could do with a little less drama from the White House,” Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said.
(16) Mitch McConnell, the Republicans’ leader in the Senate ran on a slogan of “Guns, Freedom and Coal”.
(17) In a functional party the Republican Speaker, John Boehner, would work out what changes he could make to the bill to give the Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, a fighting chance of getting the requisite majority to pass legislation they could both take credit for.
(18) Mitch Fifield, the assistant minister for social services, told the paper: “It’s important, as the legislated expiry dates of board appointments approach, to make sure we have into the future the best mix of skills and experience from current and new members for a venture of this magnitude and importance.” The ads seek previous corporate experience and work in disability services.
(19) Most of the fish are fresh off the boat from round the bay in Brixham, although the crab and lobster comes from Dartmouth and the salmon is home-smoked by Mitch.
(20) Updated at 8.23am BST 7.42am BST Default fears get Senate leaders moving Senate majority leader Harry Reid fuelled hopes of a deal last night when he told reporters that he and minority leader Mitch McConnell had made "tremendous progress" towards a deal.