How to use "gruff" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "gruff" in popular movie and book plots

  • A gruff sea captain (Walter Long) enlists fish-shop employees Laurel and Hardy to help in shanghaiing men to be a crew for his next voyage.  - The Live Ghost
  • He drove the gruff Henry almost over the edge, but of course in the end familial ties conquered all differences in sitcom tradition.  - You Again?
  • Slow-witted army private Cuthbert Hope (Laurel) manages to makes life miserable for his gruff Top Sergeant Banner (Hardy).  - With Love and Hisses
  • Fenton is gruff yet cordial, and invites Takamori to share a beer with him in his cluttered attic.  - The Encounter (Twilight Zone)
  • Soon afterward, Picard departs for the Iyaaran home world with Voval, the Iyaaran shuttle pilot, who is gruff and uncommunicative.  - Liaisons (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
  • An elderly woman (Oh Mi-hee) rents a coffee shop from a gruff theater owner (Joo Hyun).  - All for Love (2005 film)
  • Just before he hits the ground, a gruff Whiptail rescues him.  - The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock
  • Cate Blanchett portrays a marginally successful career woman preparing dinner for her gruff and unsympathetic mother.  - Bangers (film)
  • There she befriends Nina, another waitress (Camryn Manheim), who helps her understand Einar’s gruff ways and dark past.  - An Unfinished Life
  • Smooth Walker (Howard Hesseman), a pimp, owes $80,000 to "Mom" (Kate Murtagh), a gruff Chicago mob boss.  - Doctor Detroit
  • Sanders is a welcoming but gruff presence, further undermining Hindle at regular intervals.  - Kinda (Doctor Who)
  • Uncle Vova, a generic but gruff foreman and family man, goes outside to buy groceries.  - Kin-dza-dza!
  • Meanwhile, Madge discovers a new love and it is not her rather gruff husband Jerry.  - The House of Eliott
  • Although Ironside was good-hearted and honest, he maintained a gruff persona.  - Ironside (1967 TV series)
  • Later, the family is visited by Marta's gruff but soft-hearted Uncle Chris and his housekeeper Jessie Brown, who is secretly his wife.  - I Remember Mama (film)
  • Lachlan 'Lachie' MacLachlan (Richard Todd) is very gruff and mean.  - The Hasty Heart

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