(1) "If you must, " came the gruff reply.

(2) His manner can be rather gruff.

(3) Bill's voice was thick and gruff.

(4) He's quite a sweet man beneath the gruff exterior.

(5) He could be gruff and monosyllabic.

(6) He hid his feelings behind a gruff abruptness.

(7) Beneath his gruff exterior, he's really very kind-hearted.

(8) His gruff exterior concealed one of the kindest hearts.

(9) His gruff hoarse voice struck my ears.

(10) Don't beput off by his gruff exterior; he's really very kind underneath.

(11) His voice became gruff.

(12) A gruff voice commanded us to enter.

(13) Belle finds a sweet soul behind his gruff exterior.

(14) He was kind of gruff and all.

(15) And when he wept he was not gruff.

(16) Behind his gruff exterior, she finds a sweet soul.

(17) A gruff male voice bade them enter.

(18) Dad can be gruff and impatient at times.

(19) Hatecore, as the music is known, is gruff, loud and guitar-driven.

(20) He heard a man's gruff voice and a loud slap, followed by familiar lilting laughter.

(21) The actor gives his usual gruff delivery, meant to convince us he's honest.

(22) Gruff and inordinately self-reliant, Gordon was highly conservative in attitude, theology, and lifestyle.

(23) He muttered gruff compliments and showed his student how to prepare a palette.

(24) He stared up at the gruff old man who was so kind to him.

(25) Cathy's mother had been a martyr to her gruff, domineering husband.

(26) A lonely and gruff soul, Glam was exceedingly ugly with rough hair and skin, though very loyal to his employer.

(27) You listen to his gruff voice giving orders to his crew as they row him out to his ketch.

(28) He alarmed us as children: he had a gruff manner, a game leg and a pronounced cast in one eye.

(29) He picked up the phone expecting to hear the chairman's gruff voice.

(30) The victim said he stood out because of his short size and deep, gruff voice.

(1) "If you must, " came the gruff reply.

(2) His manner can be rather gruff.

(3) He picked up the phone expecting to hear the chairman's gruff voice.

(4) He hid his feelings behind a gruff abruptness.

(31) He was an irritable old man, who seldom spoke except to say a gruff hello.

(32) Soon the middle Billy Goat Gruff came across the bridge with a louder trip-trap sound.

(33) Her gruff mannish exterior hid a sensitive and complex nature.

(34) Mr. Barkis seemed gruff and answered dryly.

(35) Robin first time met Quinn, a gruff, rough-hewn cargo pilot, when she was look for the charter plane.

(36) Critics describe a Garbo deep gruff voice like the Alto, with incredible arias like magic.

(36) is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.

(37) Carelessness in their tone of voice, often speaking in gruff, antagonistic tones.

(38) Simultaneously I heard his voice, gruff, muffled, husky, at the hall telephone.

(39) Eg. For all his gruff heartiness , there must lurk inside him the soul of an evangelical preacher.

(40) " Who was that fiddling here? " asked the gruff voiced soldier.

(41) Oryza rufipogon Gruff. , known as the ancestor of Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L. ), is an important germplasm for rice improvement.

(42) His gruff father warned, " Don't bring home an Okinawan or an Eta. "

(43) But the gruff, burly Rochester insists on getting home unaided although he is in great pain.

(44) Aunt Chloe set a chair for her in a manner decidedly gruff and crusty.

(45) 'S Reign of Fire saw him move from inflammatory hard dancehall towards gruff, judgemental roots music.

(46) The gruff ruffian's ruffled cuff is scuffed in the scuffle with the shuffler.

(47) I hope there ain't, but I't'Nation sure of that'said the guard, in gruff soliloquy.

(48) His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.

(49) Doctors found the cleome a glioma a gruff growth in the supportive tissue of the brain.