Sentence examples for growl from inspiring English sources

The word "growl" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to a deep, throaty sound, usually made by a large mammal such as a lion or a bear. For example: The bear let out an intimidating growl as the campers approached its lair.

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growl

verb

To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.

  • The dog growled at me as I walked past.

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For years, an identical feature was offered by Growl, and hundreds of Mac programs use Growl's software interface to allow its pop-up messages.Notifications diminishes Growl's appeal, but the developer took it in stride, promising to adopt, adapt and improve.

For a typical antihero jerk, Bosch isn't so bad, and Welliver plays him with a velvet growl that somehow is welcoming even as we realise what a giant mess his personal life (or what there is of it) is.

The loops are short and simple, overlaid with textures that growl and grind.

In September 1991, three months before the fall of the Soviet Union, 1.6 million people gathered at a giant field in northern Moscow to sing along – or rather growl along – with some of the hottest rock acts of the time, including AC/DC, Pantera, Metallica, the Black Crowes and the cult Soviet band EST.

They cannot all be right.American conservatives growl that if the country feels all wrong it is because Democrats buy elections with "free stuff" for the feckless poor, destroying the national work ethic.

Hence a headline-grabbing growl on the first day of the conference from John Edmonds, general secretary of the GMB, Britain's fourth-biggest union, and this year's TUC president, denouncing any company boss awarding himself a huge rise while his workers get a pittance as a "greedy bastard".

"Music gets deep inside me," she explained once, "and starts to shake things up".Ms Makeba could soar like an opera singer, but she could also whisper, roar, hiss, growl and shout.

Better luck next time A toothless growl White magic in Georgia Rivalry on the right Slinging mud Glum signals from Serbia ReprintsTrue, it could be argued that the Christian Democrats are in far better shape than they dared hope after the election debacle.

They offered to read him his rights, but almost all he could growl was "Bitch set me up".That was the fall, in January 1990.

For the ritual sequence, sepulchral voices growl a litany as if from the pagan past.

LORD PALMERSTON once dismissed the horribly complicated Schleswig-Holstein question with a growl.

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