How To Use gruffly In A Sentence
- The evidence she’d gathered at the beach had already arrived, delivered by a young tech who’d sheepishly entered the den of the legendary Lincoln Rhyme without a word and scurried about to deposit the bags and stacks of pictures as the criminalist gruffly directed. The Stone Monkey
- “He’s behaved like a perfect peeg!” she said gruffly, pronouncing the word cochon as though she referred to Joan of Arc’s contemporary, Bishop Cauchon. Within a Budding Grove
- Your choice to ignore your responsibilities and then sit around gruffly barking at passersby is just that, your choice. Think Progress » Dick Morris: ‘Civil War Is Progress’ In Iraq
- 'Nice bloke, Firenze,' he said gruffly 'but he don' know what he's talkin 'abou' on this. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Your new friend is just going to walk up to you, introduce itself rather gruffly, hand you a few forms to fill out, and move right on in.
- Rather shamefaced, he stood back and said gruffly, `Let her go, Lucas, a joke's a joke but we've gone far enough. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
- `No,' he replied gruffly
- They spoke little for they were tired, but Sean could feel the gratitude of the men who sat beside him and before they rolled into their blankets Jan Paulus said gruffly, Thank you, kerel., When the Lion Feeds
- He took down the receiver with no undue haste and answered the call gruffly, but his bored expression changed rapidly as he listened. The Shadow of the East
- Inspector Morse - Gruffly drinks beer and does crosswords in Oxford
