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Example sentences for: grunts

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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.
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.
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.
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).
The assumption, says Sledzik, is that American grunts picked up the skulls in their battlefield travels: souvenirs to someday show the grandkids.