Examples of grumpy in a Sentence
Our neighbor is a grumpy old man.
I was feeling grumpy after my long flight.
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Golden smiles for the picture but makes a grumpy face in a second photo, sitting alongside her older sister Sterling Skye, 4.
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Hannah Sacks, People.com, 16 July 2025
Golden smiled for the picture but made a grumpy face in a second photo, sitting alongside her older sister, Sterling.
—Hannah Sacks, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
At Castle Leathers, Murtagh is grumpy and sulking because Ellen has been promised to another… which Brian definitely did not know.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 15 Aug. 2025
If faced with a bruin, my guess is that Go would leap over the grumpy bear, dunk a basketball, and then sprint to safety.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside, 7 Aug. 2025
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Hannah Sacks, People.com, 16 July 2025
Golden smiled for the picture but made a grumpy face in a second photo, sitting alongside her older sister, Sterling.
—Hannah Sacks, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
At Castle Leathers, Murtagh is grumpy and sulking because Ellen has been promised to another… which Brian definitely did not know.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 15 Aug. 2025
If faced with a bruin, my guess is that Go would leap over the grumpy bear, dunk a basketball, and then sprint to safety.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside, 7 Aug. 2025
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“Grumpy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grumpy. Accessed 4 Sep. 2025.
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