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- verb Present participle of
grunt . - noun A sound that grunts.
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Examples
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They would come in grunting and snorting, then tear the ground up and pee on top of it.
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They would come in grunting and snorting, then tear the ground up and pee on top of it.
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The authors of the study say they hope their findings lead to a reduction in grunting on the court.
Week in Ideas 2010
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PowerPoint has, until very recently, been designed to help people communicate like cave men: in short, grunting sentences accompanied by crude illustrations.
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The yaks alone can find anything to do: so long as any vegetation remains they roam and eat it, still yielding milk, which the women take morning and evening, when their shrill whistle and cries are heard for a few minutes, as they call the grunting animals.
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Becalmed on their garden furniture, playing a card game that is a desperate recourse of boredom, their flesh broiling in the unaccustomed sun, they don't necessarily look ugly but are certainly unbeautiful – indistinguishable, in fact, from the fans who nowadays drive white vans with St George's flags flapping on them and speak a grunting lingo that may or may not be English.
The big picture: the England squad relax at their hotel in Leon, Mexico, on 14 June 1970 2010
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If the grunting is a silly rule to him, apologize and go elsewhere.
"It's an attack on my character, and it's very embarrassing, and an insult." Ann Althouse 2006
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But the real treat is Elliot - animated by the great Don Bluth, voiced (if you can call his grunting and clicking a voice) by Charlie Callus and made real in the actor's realm by Disney's experienced hand in special effects.
Home Theater Forum 2010
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Sexist comments aside, what may actually put an end to the grunting is a meeting of the Grand Slam Committee scheduled to take place at Wimbledon this week.
Jezebel 2009
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Oh yeah, and there's a lot of "grunting" involved (oh, the scandal!).
Charlotte Hilton Andersen: Wimbledon Officials Call Serena Williams Ugly, Send Her to Back Courts 2009
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