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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of grunt.

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Examples

  • Ansar, my camel - so-called because his name meant "the oldest" in Arabic - grunted as it attempted to navigate the soft, undulating curves or piste, of the Sahara.

    unknown title 2009

  • Ansar, my camel - so-called because his name meant "the oldest" in Arabic - grunted as it attempted to navigate the soft, undulating curves or piste, of the Sahara.

    unknown title 2009

  • Playing on the Ravons, I called the new management company Nevermore Ltd. When I asked Tug what he thought of the name he grunted and asked if it was for the home of Peter Pan, “Where the Lost Boys never grow up.”

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • Playing on the Ravons, I called the new management company Nevermore Ltd. When I asked Tug what he thought of the name he grunted and asked if it was for the home of Peter Pan, “Where the Lost Boys never grow up.”

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • Playing on the Ravons, I called the new management company Nevermore Ltd. When I asked Tug what he thought of the name he grunted and asked if it was for the home of Peter Pan, “Where the Lost Boys never grow up.”

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • Hyaki looked over his shoulder, grunted a kata, and wished that their food would hurry up and emerge from hibernation in the kitchen.

    The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • But after a time when the two dared hardly draw a full breath, the stag grunted and trotted toward the lake.

    Here Abide Monsters Norton, Andre 1973

  • Ward grunted a word that sounded like "dam-chump."

    The Ranch at the Wolverine 1914

  • Father looked funny and kind of grunted and said, yes, yes, he knew.

    Mary Marie 1920

  • "It'll be double that before we get through," grunted "Long Tommy," as we stepped back from the loaded gun.

    A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" Russell Doubleday 1910

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