mustn't grumble

Examples of grumbling

grumbling

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The commands of muster masters and the exactions of purveyors met grumbling compliance.
But as time goes on they started grumbling because the shelter is not enough.
In 1743, as the city quickly grew restless from a wave of soaring prices, grumbling voices were heard everywhere.
Most of this grumbling by local officials centred around the claim that inmates were treated too leniently.
Even so, some lingering questions about her methodology, like a grumbling appendix, just will not go away.
Instead, the existing schools only seek self-comfort through the grumbling logics of realism and constructivism.
Their bellies grumbling, the village mounts a collective effort to return the baker's wife to her conjugal duty.
But once again, there are biographical grumblings.
In contrast to these songs full of grumbling and discontent, those calling for the salvation of the nation or service to the society are more positive and constructive.
You, who play the zigzag lightning of power over the world, with the grumbling thunder in your wake, think kindly of those who walk in the dust.
Broughton's well-off women are usually grumbling about something, often travel, always other people.
The potboiling artist, who sees fit to feed his own grumbling stomach, is a betrayer of both new and very old models of the artistic life.
I am not grumbling, but many people who share a party line complain of the tremendous inconvenience this causes.
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