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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
grumble .
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Examples
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I divided and issued the meat under the captain's eyes, and managed it fairly enough, God knows, although some of the men grumbled from the first.
Chapter 19 2010
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I divided and issued the meat under the captain's eyes, and managed it fairly enough, God knows, although some of the men grumbled from the first.
Chapter 19 2010
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I spend all afternoon picking out the clothes to wear for a night out on the town with the ladies, and I get upstaged by some guy dressed like Popeye, a Manhattan man who only identified himself as Austin grumbled as he surveyed the servicemen crowded into a neighborhood bar.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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I spend all afternoon picking out the clothes to wear for a night out on the town with the ladies, and I get upstaged by some guy dressed like Popeye, a Manhattan man who only identified himself as Austin grumbled as he surveyed the servicemen crowded into a neighborhood bar.
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I divided and issued the meat under the captain's eyes, and managed it fairly enough, God knows, although some of the men grumbled from the first.
Chapter 19 1915
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The parson's daughter had had her way; Daddy Darwin grumbled at first, but in the end he got a bottle-green Sunday-coat out of the oak-press that matched the bedstead, and put the house-key into his pocket, and went to church too.
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Coach scribbled his name and grumbled, “You could have asked her in the first place.”
Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011
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Coach scribbled his name and grumbled, “You could have asked her in the first place.”
Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011
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I really like the idea of grumbled as something one can be.
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“You never can tell about these niggers,” the captain grumbled.
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