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    gruff example sentences

    gruff


    gruffing


    1. that makes us sound gruff and uncaring when it comes to improving our appearances


    2. ’ I said, my voice gruff


    3. very grouchy, and was dismissive and gruff with his


    4. Nevertheless, within this rather gruff exterior, there really did


    5. “You there!” came a gruff call from the road


    6. "Alec? You there boy?" The voice was gruff and loud, even though stifled by the door


    7. ‘The gates are opened for no-one,’ came the gruff,


    8. "Master Brice, was it absolutely necessary to bring this man along?" The voice was masculine, gruff, and emitted from the taller of the two hooded figures who had finally arrived with their cumbersome load


    9. " The voice was gruff but pretended to be soft for the elderly woman's sake


    10. "Really, lad? Solo Ki is here? In my Inn?" Grimgy said, his gruff voice filled with excitement

    11. a never-ending night," he said, speaking with the gruff voice of a man


    12. extremely gruff one as I have so often done in this life and maybe


    13. stick banged against metal and a gruff voice started shouting


    14. a gruff gent by the name of Josiah Brown


    15. hard when she heard his gruff voice


    16. Lieutenant Keith with his gruff manner and stern tone, but he


    17. But as we stopped outside Elijah’s house they moved past us saying a gruff “Morning


    18. In a gruff voice he said, ‘If we increase in units of fifty in ten second intervals we can better ascertain a response


    19. ‘Thought I'd given up on my rebellious daughter?’ His gruff voice thinned by the poor quality of the scrambled signal


    20. Then they’ll be nice, fat, and tender for the selling block!” He let loose a gruff laugh and started to unshackle the younglings

    21. At that, they all started laughing—even the normally gruff Osgood Thrip, who for the first time in years felt a smidgen of warmth in his heart


    22. although his voice was deep and gruff


    23. Her dark blue powdered eyes pierced my core with spits of fire as she told me to sit and wait in a gruff voice which I presumed she had inherited from all the cigarettes she clearly smoked


    24. He greeted me in a gruff deep voice becoming of his size


    25. She was elderly and friendly, clearly very experienced in her field, and when she spoke her voice was uncharacteristically gruff


    26. Still, though it was gruff it was filled with concern and gentleness


    27. Uncle Hobart came up beside me, his gruff voice sharp in my ear, "Told yer, didn't I? It's the gift yer see


    28. "What yer want then?" his gruff voice hissed in my ear


    29. His gruff tone and off-hand comment didn"t come as a total surprise to me


    30. A glazed look of mock awe covered Amonas face and his gruff voice added tremendously to the intended comical effect:

    31. He answered back, his strong gruff voice undimmed by the blanket of vegetation all around them:


    32. A spitting noise could be heard approaching and the familiar gruff voice of Belver


    33. Amonas shushed him and answered with strain in his voice, its gruff tone exaggeratedly harsh


    34. He managed to ask Hilderich with his usually gruff voice sounding even more coarse:


    35. Agrippa spoke in the gruff undertones of Amonas, this time almost true to his original timbre:


    36. A gruff voice made be jump


    37. He dialled the local station and a gruff voice answered,


    38. The weenies in the insurance agency said I was gruff, and then I was in a “I told you so” position regarding the bankruptcies where EI stood to receive only pennies on the dollar, and then, only after many years of bankruptcy court proceedings


    39. “Jemelda, what would you have us do?” Thomas’s gruff question made the cook jump and she blinked at him, hoping he did not pick up her uncertainty in the cave’s shifting shadows


    40. At the last two lines however, Thomas’ gruff voice joined hers and doubled the blessing

    41. And that gruff Colonel Lochert; Terry Holt stared at him with fascination


    42. Hearing that gruff voice, Halfdan smiled


    43. I was kinda glad he had that gruff manner, now


    44. Their leader was a gruff old veteran named He Who Does Not Want To Hear About It


    45. His gruff greeting was followed by a big hug which Natalie thought would squash her ribs


    46. “WHO COMES HERE!” bellowed a gruff voice


    47. But Zach flinched as a gruff voice shouted, and the burly form of Jed came marching out of the farmhouse


    48. He heard gruff dog barking in reply, and Edwin found himself hoping to see Blossom’s black bulk charging from the shadows


    49. A gruff cop voice: “Looks like that kid on TV … what the heck …”


    50. Gruff man stopped suddenly, and I saw his companion struggling with a large trapdoor in the floor














































    1. He could see nothing and was afraid that he might fall into a fit of sneezing amidst this sea of fur, but as he urged the pack forward he could hear the frustrated chuffing and gruffing of the boxers and the muffled swishing and whuffing of their gloves as they jabbed and punched and hooked with apparent determination, but they remained unable to effectively penetrate the plodding mass of hair


    2. Gruffing his tone some, Flint responded in the language perfectly and then broke into a staged excited monologue that had voices coming back to him over the radio excitedly


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    Synonyms for "gruff"

    gruff hoarse husky crusty curmudgeonly ill-humored ill-humoured abrupt short discourteous brusque uncivil blunt plain-spoken

    "gruff" definitions

    brusque and surly and forbidding


    deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion