1979 examples of growl in sentences

" As he stopped, a growl came from the others.

Complain, grumble, growl, murmur, repine, whine, croak.

Even before this was known his return home did not fail to make his father growl.

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and [who] does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark"' A brief account of him is given in the Ann.

Then, from beneath, came a growl which was almost a roar; there was another wild shriek from Miss Lennox, there was the sound of brushwood being torn away, and as Jack, with a mighty effort, lifted the girl to her feet beside him, there appeared at the hole the blazing eyes and red mouth of a bear, furious at having been aroused from its winter sleep.

Bruin uttered a baffled growl.

CHAPTER XIX A GROWL ABOUT AMERICAN COUNTRY HOTELS

" The clerk promised that he would; and Scrooge walked out with a growl.

"Boys," he said, "I figure some of you has got an almighty big wish to see Sinclair on the end of a rope, eh?" A deep growl answered him.

There was a growl from the others.

He was about to go over to the wall when some one seized him from behind, and he heard a gruff voice growl in his ear: "Who are you?" The boy turned quickly, and, in the confusion of the moment, he thought he was facing a huge rock, covered with brownish moss.

"It smells like a human being around here," said Father Bear the instant he came up to Mother Bear, and his growl was as the rolling of thunder.

Suddenly the boy heard in the darkness a grinding of teeth and a growl.

The first baseman saw a dusty white cannon-ball shoot past him, and heard the umpire's dulcet voice growl: "Strike!" Which pleased the Kingston audience so mightily that they broke forth into cheers and applause that upset Reddy so completely that the next ball slipped from his hand and came toward the first baseman so gently that he could hardly have missed it had he tried.

You should have seen him show his teeth and growl.

he said in a low growl.

You could feel now the puzzled growl of Christina's engines as Mr. Russell pondered.

Dunwody threw himself against the doorpost with a growl of anger.

"I thought so." As though to settle all doubt, the growl rang out again.

An instant Megget glowered with rage at the mere stripling of a boy who had announced his willingness to fight him, then with a savage growl started to swing from his saddle.

At 7 A.M., not being a perfect artist, he generally has to drop something; but by that time I am only pretending to be asleep, and I growl at him, ask him why he didn't call me an hour ago, and then fall asleep again.

Clinch, for it was he, scouring the shore in quest of the lugger, on his way back to the Proserpine, gave a growl when he found that he must speak in a foreign tongue, if he would continue the discourse; then he mustered all the Italian of which he was master for the occasion.

They approached the cart, but as they did so, my faithful Betsy let forth an angry growl.

Presently Tiger disappeared behind the wall, and a second later we heard a low growl.

As for Mozewell, great dogs have their faults as do great menhe never got enough meat; he would fight even poor crippled Jude, and steal even from the pups; when he had gotten all Jim would give him, and all he could snatch, he would growl away with bulging sides.

1979 examples of  growl  in sentences