Sentences with word «grumble»

The word "grumble" means to complain or express dissatisfaction about something usually in a low, unhappy tone of voice. Full definition
There is plenty of grumbling about how online shopping is forcing many retailers across the country to close...
One year, instead of grumbling about the pestering baboons, Andries Fickster, a worker on the farm, asked, «Why do the baboons keep coming back to this one tree?»
Do you extend your pacifism to not grumbling at the driver who just cut you off in traffic or smacking your computer when it's on the blink?
The new standards have met with grumbling from school nutrition officials who say they are difficult and expensive to follow, conservatives who say the government shouldn't be dictating what kids eat and — unsurprisingly — from some children who say the less - greasy food doesn't taste as good.
«I have no ziti,» Percoco was quoted as grumbling in one exchange when Howe said Percoco wanted money to pay his hefty mortgage and other bills.
while slinking down in one's chair at the mere sight of a new meal — I still get my fair share of grumbling when every meal isn't to every single person's liking.
Now, with grumbling tummies and happy hearts, we're off on a search for lunch.
When mid-afternoon rolls around, my tummy starts grumbling for a snack, I head into my kitchen, open the cabinets and inevitably reach for nut butter.
No more grumbling tummies while you are trying to find any glimmer of a nutrition bar in your purse.
Following a longstanding relationship with American Express, Costco recently made a very bumpy transition to a co-branded Citi card — rife with misrouted cards and long customer support wait times — that set off a wave of grumbling among Costco shoppers.
Let's face it, when you're busier than ever, the vending machine is sometimes the only option to keep your stomach from grumbling over your boss» voice.
Ken Langone, the billionaire Roman Catholic who helped found Home Depot, told CNBC he has heard grumbling about the Pope's comments about the wealthy.
Again, I don't have any person experience with this phenomenon, as the books I've made free have stayed free (by using price - matching rather than enrolling in Select), but I've seen a lot of people grumbling on the Kindleboards and in other places that KDP Select isn't worth anything to them now that this «feature» has been fixed (or at least majorly downgraded).
She grunts and grumbles while playing with toys and chasing her buddy Haiku.
The changes ultimately were approved, but not without grumbling from both sides of the aisle.
So I have to admit I sned up for online dating with much grumbling at first.
All my life I have taken care of myself, and it isn't a bed of roses to have to lie here like a baby and be waited on by people who grumble at you all the time they are doing it.
Now that GE has agreed to buy a 2.5 - acre parcel of land in Fort Point Channel, real estate adjacent to Boston's Seaport tech hotbed there is more grumbling about just how much of the freight the company will pay and how much will be footed by the state and city — aka the public.
So if the ball goes over the fence, does Cole just grumble under his breath and move on to the next batter?
While it caused a few grumbles in the ranks of the purists, it is a wonderful message to send the movie industry, expanding the potential of these well - worn characters.
I am reading this ar 2 am and my tummy is now grumbling after seeing your photos =) Merlinda Little (Glimmer of Hope) recently posted... Asphalt & Blooms
Everyone has a right to their opinion, but no point in expressing it without elaboration... just sounds like grumbling or mumbling.
My stomach is already grumbling for dinner.
Meanwhile, gay marriage — one of Salmond's pet projects — is also tearing the party apart, with one former leader branding it «fascism» and many members grumbling under their breath of a liberal takeover.
The voice actors have a German twang which seems at odds with them flying in the United States Army Air Forces, but that's only a minor grumble in the grand scheme of things.
The goal: to persuade people who devoted time and money four years ago to put their training to work again, despite grumbling among some in the «professional Left» that their 2008 investment has yet to pay off substantively.
Once I have said no, I often get grumbled at & am told that I am being too controlling.
I've heard little grumbling about «loss of local control,» «prescribing a curriculum,» and «lack of diversity,» and other familiar complaints.
«And there's rumblings Koppell didn't help himself with Quinn by supposedly grumbling too loudly about goodies going to members less senior than himself.»
If I'm flying towards home, I am less likely to begin grumbling at my fellow travelers and my lot in life.
He said contractors also grumbled privately that the state's request for proposals required 50 years experience in mixed - use buildings, classrooms, high - tech laboratory space and «advanced clean - room infrastructure» for a lab in the Greater Buffalo area with an emphasis on nanotechnology, medical and green energy facilities.
Likewise, Bone - Dry Dunes has a part of his head on the cliff face over the cave, and advertisements in both Twisted Mansion and Wii Grumble Volcano for «Undead Motors» use his emblem.
A sugar daddy who is over the age of 50 and still grumbling about life comes across as a cranky old man to a sugar baby.
«Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.»
The problems at Kettering are of a type with those that humbled Leeds, that bedevil Portsmouth, that are grumbling around Birmingham: distant, selfish owners, divorced from the fans, and overseen — if you can call it that — by a supine Football Association so lacking in teeth that it's been off solids longer than I've been on them.
It'll also protect you from grumbling old men that invent new curse words every time the line at the rental car counter slows down.
This will cause grumbles among the six million or so Britons employed in the public sector (a disproportionate number of whom are already Labour voters) but will at least neutralise dissent from the vast majority of taxpayers whose jobs and pensions look much less secure.
Democrats have long grumbled Cuomo does not want their party to control the Senate, believing he prefers the split Legislature in order to triangulate during negotiations.
Your stomach grumbles so you open the fridge — nothing to eat, with same situation in the pantry and the freezer.
Time in class should fly by so quickly that you hear students grumbling when the class period is over each day.

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