Use "gruffness" in a sentence

1. from the freshness and aristocracy, albeit somewhat gruffness, of the commandant’s voice that he

2. “My orders,” the sharp gruffness had returned to the captain’s voice, “as if I had any need of telling you, are to take you, along with the rest of these runaways, to the Hebrew labor pool to await further assignment

3. “My orders,” the sharp gruffness had returned to the captain's voice, “as if I had any need of

4. “How are you holding up?” Higgins asked in a tone that was unfamiliar in that it lacked the harshness, the gruffness that had become characteristic of the boss

5. Good to hear from you,” the gruffness in his voice replaced with genuine warmth

6. ‘You’ve got to pull yourself together,’ he said with sooth-ing gruffness

7. The gruffness of his tone did not tend to encourage expansiveness on the other's part, and little more was said whilst they unmoored the boat and rowed across, so the engineer had good opportunity for taking stock of his companion