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Grumble in sentence

19 examples of Grumble in a sentence

I am an American History teacher and this is the sort of film that causes people like me to grumble and complain because the film bears almost no similarity to the actual story of the founding of the Jamestown colony.
The shipmates grumble when they realize they will dock to take aboard wartime ammunitions.
By the time they qualify for pensions and the license to grumble, the century will be into its seventh or eighth decade.
In Europe, while Greeks may grumble about the terms of German backing for emergency financing, the period since World War II has seen enormous progress in knitting countries together.
They grumble at the injustice of blaming them for the global economy’s imbalances.
The Europeans will grumble about Bush's policy, and they may even send Arafat a generous package of compassionate rhetoric.
Drivers grumble at the cost of filling their cars’ gas tanks.
Until now, the rest of world could only grumble at Europe’s obstinate refusal to recognize its relative decline.
If today’s expansion stops with Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, Russians would grumble but accept, understanding that this expansion as a direct result of the Soviet Union's initiatives at Yalta.
Customers can be happy even when faced by a monopoly, though they would grumble far more if they knew how much they were paying for good service!
But to-day he began to grumble because there was no soup.
Slowly against the swift current they work their ponderous way, till, with a low grumble, they grate against the bank of the little island that from this day will bear the name of Magna Charta Island.
The devil's music went on till evening, sometimes rising into a roar, sometimes sinking into a grumble, until about eight o'clock in the evening it stopped altogether.
"All that is true, Senor Don Quixote," said Carrasco; "but I wish such fault-finders were more lenient and less exacting, and did not pay so much attention to the spots on the bright sun of the work they grumble at; for if aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus, they should remember how long he remained awake to shed the light of his work with as little shade as possible; and perhaps it may be that what they find fault with may be moles, that sometimes heighten the beauty of the face that bears them; and so I say very great is the risk to which he who prints a book exposes himself, for of all impossibilities the greatest is to write one that will satisfy and please all readers."
They loved to grumble, those old salts, for as soon as one had shot off his grievance his neighbour would follow with another, each more bitter than the last.
"As for me," said the sailor, "if I ever grumble at work, my name's not Jack Pencroft, and if you like, captain, we will make a little America of this island!
Pencroft brought to the task a devouring energy, and would even grumble when one or the other abandoned the carpenter's axe for the gun of the hunter.
"Nay," said the Knight, "an he have the gift of showing my road, I shall not grumble with him that he desires to make it pleasant.--Fare
judges, who were fasting, began to grumble.