Grumbling is an English word with synonyms like rumbling or grumble. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Grumbling meaning
present participle and gerund of grumble
Synonyms of Grumbling
Using Grumbling
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of grumble
- Useful related words include: rumbling, grumble, muttering, mutter.
- In the example corpus, grumbling often appears in combinations such as: grumbling about, of grumbling, grumbling and.
Context around Grumbling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Grumbling
- In this selection, "grumbling" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hear, following, frustrated, regulators, fan and eventually stand out and add context to how "grumbling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a cantankerous grumbling slob who and a frustrated grumbling fan base. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "grumbling" sits close to words such as abdulrazaq, adan and adolphus, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with grumbling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I would not be grumbling and criticising,” he said. (9 words)
Make a good show and those hardcore fans will quit grumbling eventually. (12 words)
So, a short debt limit extension is likely despite a lot of grumbling. (13 words)
For now, the best a frustrated, grumbling fan base can hope for is improved defense, a better clubhouse culture and (fingers crossed) steps forward from a few young pitchers among a large group of unprovens hoping to advance the cause. (40 words)
At least we have had a glimpse of the character that was hidden in some people who are now busy grumbling against an injustice that is neither here nor there. (30 words)
A Dundee restaurant owner has said he stands by a Tripadvisor reply where he described a grumbling customer as a “filthy animal” and threatened to “slap his face”. (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
As the United Automobile Workers strike continues, we’re likely to hear grumbling about labor unions.
But I also think there would be a lot of grumbling about a Triple Threat at WM.
Following grumbling regulators in Italythe European Parliament, the turn has come for German trade unions to express their concerns over potential copyright infringement.
For now, the best a frustrated, grumbling fan base can hope for is improved defense, a better clubhouse culture and (fingers crossed) steps forward from a few young pitchers among a large group of unprovens hoping to advance the cause.
He answered by grumbling about press coverage and recounting an old saw about a dog in a lake.
I would not be grumbling and criticising,” he said.
Make a good show and those hardcore fans will quit grumbling eventually.
Their boss is Jackson Lamb (Oldman), a cantankerous, grumbling slob who is the conduit for The Thick of It writer Will Smith’s best lines.
At about 9 p.m., the cars pull into abandoned parking lots and fill them with the sounds of grumbling engines and spooling turbochargers.
Drenched within seconds and grumbling angrily to myself, I ran back to my car to shelter from what seemed like a monsoon.
Grumbling – Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost: The Rev. Timothy Jenks explains the message, based on Numbers 11 and James 5, at the 9:30 a.m. service.
He was animated in the courtroom throughout the two-week trial and jurors could hear him grumbling about the case.
MPs are also grumbling about the PM’s approach to tax cuts, with even the Chancellor privately admitting that cuts to National Insurance have not been rewarded.
Now the federal government has commenced payment of the new minimum wage but state governors are grumbling about dearth of funds to implement the new law.
Residents were seen grumbling and lamenting that without regular supply of electricity and the current scarcity of fuel, the ongoing economic hardship had worsened.
So, a short debt limit extension is likely despite a lot of grumbling.
Some New York Yankees fans are grumbling about manager Aaron Boone, despite the fact the team is on pace to win almost 100 games.
The poor bloke said he was “hit twice” with this otherworldly grumbling, until he thought “enough of that – so I went inside”.
A Dundee restaurant owner has said he stands by a Tripadvisor reply where he described a grumbling customer as a “filthy animal” and threatened to “slap his face”.
At least we have had a glimpse of the character that was hidden in some people who are now busy grumbling against an injustice that is neither here nor there.
Common combinations with grumbling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- grumbling about 12×
- of grumbling 6×
- grumbling and 4×
- was grumbling 3×
- by grumbling 2×
- are grumbling 2×
- grumbling sound 2×
- grumbling over 2×