Example Sentences

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"They said there were grunting sounds, but it was ridiculous," Rosen said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2015

Down by the barn the hogs were grunting excitedly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week Paramount executives were grunting "No comments" through clenched teeth�perhaps because, as Zoetrope President Robert Spiotta suggests, "they're more disturbed by not being told than by Francis' marketing strategy."

From Time Magazine Archive

The men around me were grunting & sweating from the aggzertion eggsertion exertion.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

We climbed the fence, where the pigs were grunting and snuffing.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner