grumbling in the PONS Dictionary

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There was also no lack of grumbling about the rigors of fasting among the laity.
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The birds are rarely heard but seem to produce soft, grumbling grunting noises.
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He claimed that their lack of interest gradually turned the optimistic team into a grumbling group of depressed and sometimes angry people.
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The youth had entered the movement in the hope of creating a new world, a new life, and now the old-timers came along, grumbling about defeats, mistakes, betrayals.
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He openly expressed his dissatisfaction by grumbling and complaining.
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However, my officers and men all followed my orders in silence without grumbling, and, when exhausted, they succumbed to death just like flowers falling in the winds.
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The following year, the managing editor took over the editorial reins in response to staff grumbling.
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The search group went into the jungles with their torchlights to look for the rest grumbling about their hunger.
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A patient, mild-mannered officer, he does his strenuous best to turn the bunch of grumbling ex-civilians into soldiers, earning himself their intense dislike.
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He retained the post on and off, in spite of much grumbling, for about 35 years.
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