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Example sentences for: grunts

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Self's cleverest invention is probably the chimps' language: They convey words to each other by signing and touching each other's fur, and they add emotional inflection with grunts like euch-euch (irritable) and hooograa (friendly, inclusive).
Nor will there be any grunts in this boot camp, because the Sir or Ma'am in Yes, Sir/ Ma'am will be deemed exclusive and taboo; someone will probably take offense at Yes or No , for that matter.
A small, white-bearded Melanesian man strolls nonchalantly past a platoon of tensely trudging grunts who can't believe they're encountering this instead of a hail of Japanese bullets.
The assumption, says Sledzik, is that American grunts picked up the skulls in their battlefield travels: souvenirs to someday show the grandkids.
Your 1½-year-old grandson was sick and kept us up half the night (nothing serious, luckily, and now he's tearing around the house like usual), so if this were a real breakfast table, my conversation would not be rising very far above occasional groans, grunts, and frantic gestures towards the coffee pot.