Wiktionary
Usage examples of "grumbles".
On the other hand, if you know that grumbles are just grumbles and are often his way of starting to say yes, your response will be silence.
When a man grumbles, just imagine that he is stretching in the morning.
As 1 now moved closer to my new goal, the milk, my grumbles went away.
His grumbles are a sign that he is in the process of considering her request.
When a man grumbles it is a good sign‑‑‑he is trying to consider your request versus his needs.
When he grumbles, she feels the urge to defend her request and mistakenly breaks her silence.
Her acceptance of my grumbles and appreciation of me when I returned healed my resistance.
Any grumbles or complaints had to be brought to the Meeting, and if any child had behaved wrongly, the children themselves thought out a suitable punishment.
There were none, Elizabeth knew that the time for complaints or grumbles would come next, and she went red with excitement.
He’d sent three back to the hangar to be reassembled after he found loose straps, his enhanced audio senses picking up the ground crew’s grumbles when they thought they were out of earshot.
Thunder arrived in accompaniment, bass grumbles which seemed to circle and swoop around the town like jittery birds.
The giant door slid shut behind them, its bass grumbles echoing along the broad corridor.
Slow bass grumbles, quick chittering, whistles, and human(ish) speech gurgled loudly about her, blurring together into a single background clamour.