How to Use grouse in a Sentence

grouse

1 of 2 noun
  • Ken is among the most avid ruffed grouse hunters in the state.
    — Worth Matthewson, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025
  • 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 trails were signed and mowed and offered what looked like good ruffed grouse habitat.
    — Brad Dokken, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
  • No grouse brood counts or assessments are available for this year.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2021
  • The grouse banked hard to the left and Dowd’s shotgun fired once as the bird crumpled.
    — Outdoor Life, 11 Nov. 2020
  • But, with the new seasons, hunters are able to get into the woods for grouse after the leaves fall.
    — Worth Matthewson, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In my mind was information that grouse numbers were not good this year.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 26 Sep. 2020
  • In the two regions, there are also several races of ruffed grouse.
    — Worth Matthewson, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Pylkkänen, who hunts for pheasant, roe deer, and much else, served me grouse carpaccio with wild rowan berries.
    — Boris Fishman, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Feathery grouse flutter through the forests, and squirrels hop along the tree branches.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 3 June 2022
  • What hasn’t come back, many travelers and workers grouse, is the service.
    — Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Whether grouse, pheasant, fox, or rabbit, a sort of uniform is required.
    — Brett Braley, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Anyone else who finds a sick or entact dead grouse can also submit samples.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 22 July 2021
  • Much of the lack of interest in the ruffed grouse in the West is due to history.
    — Worth Matthewson, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025
  • On a tough day of grouse hunting, timberdoodles can help fill out a bag limit.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Walking in a line like this is important because grouse prefer to run.
    — Tom Keer, Field & Stream, 2 June 2020
  • Grouse surveyors drive on specified routes in spring and listen for the drums of male grouse.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 14 July 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
  • 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
  • Ruffed grouse are attracted by the fruit of a small, gnarled growth called the Oregon crab apple.
    — Worth Matthewson, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Ruffed grouse The ruffed grouse is Pennsylvania's state bird.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • 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
  • Late-season grouse hunting is a feast-​or-famine proposition.
    — Tom Davis, Field & Stream, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Marge sometimes missed with both barrels, and Lonnie thinned a small tree that a grouse put between them.
    — Worth Matthewson, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The region is home to whitetails, black bears, turkeys, grouse, small game, and waterfowl.
    — Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Walking down the street, passers-by grouse about being ordered to do extra coronavirus tests.
    — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2022
  • More than 40 of those areas are actively managed to produce and hold grouse.
    — Tony Kennedy, Star Tribune, 10 Sep. 2020

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.
  • Some groused about high travel costs.
    — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Some people groused that the film had left no cultural footprint.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Twin could hear her neighbors grousing but unable to swallow their anger and spit out her own.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Grace, in turn, grouses about his new roomie in a series of video diaries, which will be sent back to Earth.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Maron, in recent years, frequently groused about the state of the country and the erosion of democracy.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Three years ago, Kevin Durant groused about fans hitting him up for money after losing bets.
    — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • That hasn’t stopped employers from grousing about the state regulations.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 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
  • Mastroianni groused that players’ enthusiasm for the sport is almost cultish.
    — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
  • In every clip, David finds something to grouse about hilariously.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2026
  • Critics like me might grouse on the sidelines about a film's narrative arc or a documentary's missing moments.
    — Eric Deggans, NPR, 7 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nobody grouses about waiting for two scoops of a banana-and-peanut-butter concoction called Fat Elvis.
    — Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For years, audiences have groused that films are too long, and now, a number of film professors say their students are having trouble finishing films they are assigned to watch for class.
    — Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • If the fear is that foreigners are coming here to take our jobs and ruin beloved American traditions, there are plenty of nonnative artists to grouse about.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Spencer was tired and bored with his job as a hospital administrator and was grousing about it one night with good friend Mike Cisternino.
    — John Tuohy, IndyStar, 11 July 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • There was lots of grousing about Microsoft benefitting from the surge in OpenAI business.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2025
  • A good number of receivers in the league — particularly one like Sutton, who felt the need to protest his contract situation through the offseason — might have groused publicly.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 28 July 2025

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