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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).
There's lots of noble praise for the civil society movement wrapped around a series of small, feel-good ideas that elicit warm and pleasant-feeling grunts of approval.
The assumption, says Sledzik, is that American grunts picked up the skulls in their battlefield travels: souvenirs to someday show the grandkids.
Rather than adopt a cant of guttural grunts attributable to our furry forebears, I suggest that we drag the populace toward an elegant tongue.
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.