grunt
verb (used without object)
to utter the deep, guttural sound characteristic of a hog.
are grunting
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present progressiveof grunt.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Overhead, dozens of students are grunting, groaning and smacking themselves onto the ground.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2016
We have been worked desperately hard for more than four months; we are grunting doggedly away at our job, not because we like it, but because we know it is the only thing to do.
From The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay
What Place is for us, where so many Hogs are grunting, Camels and Asses braying, Jackdaws cawing, and Magpies chattering?
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus
