How to Use grouse in a Sentence

grouse

1 of 2 noun

• The grouse banked hard to the left and Dowd’s shotgun fired once as the bird crumpled.
  — Outdoor Life, 11 Nov. 2020
• Birds and more birds – owls, terns, osprey, grouse – fly off the page.
  — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2021
• Eat it on a stump in the grouse woods or with your back against a fence in a pheasant field.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 23 Nov. 2023
• The work provides a rear-view look at WNV in the grouse population.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2020
• A few minutes later, my boy clutched the grouse to his chest and began chewing on it.
  — Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 31 Dec. 2020
• Fresh food in March, if people were lucky, was fish from traps set in ice and grouse and snowshoe hares snared with loops of sinew.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2022
• Feathery grouse flutter through the forests, and squirrels hop along the tree branches.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 3 June 2022
• Taking a life, be the life grouse or moose should have no relationship to fun and games.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2022
• This is one of the best spots to hear the mating calls of grouse, which sound kind of like Bigfoot hitting a hollow log with a stick.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 June 2021
• Once the first snow hits, these grouse are almost inedible.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Oct. 2022
• Here, in my opinion, are the best shotshell loads for winter ducks, geese, pheasants, grouse, and quail.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 20 Jan. 2021
• Ruffed grouse The ruffed grouse is Pennsylvania's state bird.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
• What hasn’t come back, many travelers and workers grouse, is the service.
  — Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2023
• Grouse surveyors drive on specified routes in spring and listen for the drums of male grouse.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 14 July 2022
• No grouse brood counts or assessments are available for this year.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2021
• Scientists say grouse can’t afford to lose much more ground.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2022
• The region is home to whitetails, black bears, turkeys, grouse, small game, and waterfowl.
  — Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2021
• In my mind was information that grouse numbers were not good this year.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 26 Sep. 2020
• Whether grouse, pheasant, fox, or rabbit, a sort of uniform is required.
  — Brett Braley, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2022
• In the back country a grouse can usually be depended upon the fly up into a tree and look at you.
  — Ted Trueblood, Field & Stream, 14 Nov. 2020
• Now Sprenger, 44, sometimes sees two dozen or more grouse at a time during mating season.
  — Tammy Webber The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2023
• Balmoral is a working estate—deer stalking, grouse shooting, forestry, and farming are just some of the many uses of the land.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2023
• On a tough day of grouse hunting, timberdoodles can help fill out a bag limit.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
• Crusty snow means the grouse scrape out a shallow bed atop the snow, finding no protection from weather or from predators like hawks and owls.
  — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 16 Feb. 2021
• More than 40 of those areas are actively managed to produce and hold grouse.
  — Tony Kennedy, Star Tribune, 10 Sep. 2020
• Walking in a line like this is important because grouse prefer to run.
  — Tom Keer, Field & Stream, 2 June 2020
• Riley even performed a trick-or-treat skit while wearing his costume—a bird mask made from grouse feathers.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 15 July 2022
• Another point, a half-mile further along, Boss locked on the grouse, alerted away from the filling of his crop with cranberries.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Oct. 2020
• The habitat of the bird, a type of grouse, has diminished across about 90% of its historical range, officials said.
  — Matthew Daly, ajc, 3 May 2023
• Melt two tablespoons of butter in a skillet over medium heat and cook the grouse breasts until golden brown on both sides.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 28 Mar. 2023

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grouse

2 of 2 verb

• Fans have groused that the higher prices are unfair.
• She's been grousing to her boss about the working conditions.
• Germany was losing the war, the sloshed von Braun groused.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Privately, some of them will grouse about how folks on the other side of the river obstruct progress.
  — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2023
• Servers and staff at restaurants have long groused about the ill behavior of brunchers determined to wring the most out of mimosa deals.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• There was a lot of grousing about the last two Sopranos seasons, and the end remains divisive.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2023
• Elsewhere there was grousing about why the hell Klein and her working woman getups were included at all.
  — Bridget Foley, Town & Country, 26 Apr. 2023
• Fans usually spend March grousing about what the Cowboys haven’t done in free agency and how teams around them are getting better.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
• Amid all the grading and grousing around last week’s NBA trade deadline, there was one odd winner and one unusual loser.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
• On a farm in upstate New York last weekend, Wall Street types groused about the coming presidential election in between bites of roast pig.
  — Cara Lombardo, WSJ, 29 May 2023
• A little later, Crenshaw slinks back into the dressing room grousing about having to clean up someone’s faux-blood in the bar’s backstage bathroom.
  — Marah Eakin, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• And there have got to be some corporate bean counters grousing about the new corporate minimum tax that the law imposes.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2023
• That hasn’t stopped employers from grousing about the state regulations.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• These days, the discontent has grown louder from those close to the program andoversaturating Wolverines’ message boards where fans grouse about the state of their beloved team.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 9 Jan. 2021
• The days-long suspense over the outcome of the race led Republicans to grouse about the slow counting of the ballots, particularly in Maricopa County.
  — Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
• Vivek focused on wokeness in the C-Suite while Madeleine encouraged us to offer solutions — that is, not just how to grouse about the problem but how to actually fix it.
  — Douglas Murray, National Review, 25 June 2021
• Back then, industry insiders would grouse about the rushed pace of producing make-or-break series pilots in a three-month period in advance of the May upfronts.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 11 July 2023
• Still, Prigozhin overplayed his hand, possibly thinking that months of phone calls from officers grousing about the Defense Ministry meant that some would join the rebellion.
  — Neil MacFarquhar, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
• Mastroianni groused that players’ enthusiasm for the sport is almost cultish.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
• Indeed, over the past few years, some journalists have started to grouse that their jobs now consist of fact-checking the very same social platforms that are vaporizing their industry.
  — Joseph Bernstein, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• The thrifting community has started to grouse that its golden age is over, now that second-hand stores have begun filling up with fast fashion pieces that fall apart easily.
  — Quartz, 22 Oct. 2022
• In the days after Tucker Carlson’s abrupt firing from Fox News, a stream of unauthorized, behind-the-scenes videos appeared, showing the conservative pundit grousing about a variety of subjects and making uncouth remarks.
  — Will Sommer, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
• Several participants groused about the futility of meeting, but acquiesced to keep Trump’s legal options open.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
• Wealthy boosters typically donate money for big contracts and buyouts; school officials sometimes grouse that the contributions favor coaches rather than chemistry laboratories, but often accept the money nonetheless.
  — New York Times, 4 Dec. 2021
• Fans have groused that the higher prices are unfair.
• She's been grousing to her boss about the working conditions.
• Germany was losing the war, the sloshed von Braun groused.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Privately, some of them will grouse about how folks on the other side of the river obstruct progress.
  — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2023
• Servers and staff at restaurants have long groused about the ill behavior of brunchers determined to wring the most out of mimosa deals.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• There was a lot of grousing about the last two Sopranos seasons, and the end remains divisive.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2023

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