GROUSE in a Sentence

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13 example sentences for GROUSE, such as:

1. He is a member of a grouse shoot.
2. His main grouse is that he isn't paid enough.
3. This grouse was left for Veslovsky to follow up.
4. The marsh was dry and there were no grouse at all.
5. Not a grouse but a snipe flew up from beside the dog.

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 Meanings and Examples of GROUSE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
grouse
 v.  complain or grumble; seek or shoot grouse
Classic Sentence:
1  The marsh was dry and there were no grouse at all.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
2  Before Stepan Arkadyevitch had time to come up, a grouse flew out.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 9
3  This grouse was left for Veslovsky to follow up.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 9
4  Not a grouse but a snipe flew up from beside the dog.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 9
5  There are lots of snipe; and there are grouse too.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 11
6  Ten paces from her former place a grouse rose with a guttural cry and the peculiar round sound of its wings.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 12
7  Flying twenty paces further, the second grouse rose upwards, and whirling round like a ball, dropped heavily on a dry place.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 12
8  Cathy had been caught in the fact of plundering, or, at least, hunting out the nests of the grouse.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  But there would be a house-party for the grouse, and he wanted to be well ahead.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
Example Sentence:
1  His main grouse is that he isn't paid enough.
2  He is a member of a grouse shoot.
3  Students traditionally grouse about the abysmal quality of "mystery meat" and similar dormitory food.
4  We can grouse about how greed motivated Hollywood to cleave the final "The Hunger Games" book into two sections.