gruntingly
- a word derived from grunt.
Example Sentences
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Look around the cinema at any average screening of a Batman or X-Men film, and you’re sure to notice that the audience isn’t entirely, gruntingly male.
From The Guardian ● May 31, 2017
His face, alight with the glow from a fire pit he’d just gruntingly put together, was nothing to write home about, though.
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2012
For many seconds that seemed like minutes David stood where she had left him, while Nepapinas rose gruntingly to his feet, and gathered up his belongings, and hobbled sullenly to the bateau door and out.
From The Flaming Forest by Curwood, James Oliver
Despite the conscientious flattery of the others he gruntingly refused to give a penny.
From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor
The beaver man gruntingly climbed aboard the Ranger's horse, and we all set out.
From Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)