Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With grunting or murmuring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a grunting manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb With a
grunting sound.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Simply by declining to vacate this cage when asked, Blanco can trigger “standard extraction protocol,” and a team of guards gruntingly straps itself into vests and helmets.
Prison Porn 2010
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Simply by declining to vacate this cage when asked, Blanco can trigger “standard extraction protocol,” and a team of guards gruntingly straps itself into vests and helmets.
Prison Porn 2010
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Then he turned and looked at her, his new wife, just waking from slumbering beside him in the overland sleeper, as the pullcar rattled gruntingly southward.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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Then he turned and looked at her, his new wife, just waking from slumbering beside him in the overland sleeper, as the pullcar rattled gruntingly southward.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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I will leave you with a few paragraphs from my talk, which casts the choice as doing the right thing willingly or gruntingly:
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Then he turned and looked at her, his new wife, just waking from slumbering beside him in the overland sleeper, as the pullcar rattled gruntingly southward.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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In anticipation of a shiny new bookcase and the dislocation of my desk, my SO and I were gruntingly shifting the God-awful 1950s dresser his sainted grandmother had seen fit to bequeath to us.
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In anticipation of a shiny new bookcase and the dislocation of my desk, my SO and I were gruntingly shifting the God-awful 1950s dresser his sainted grandmother had seen fit to bequeath to us.
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Murray, meanwhile, has been conspicuously ungreeted by my grandparents during all of the helloing, being only gruntingly acknowledged.
Shampoo Planet Coupland, Douglas 1992
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But Jimmy gruntingly got down on his knees and retrieved the instrument from its hiding place under a chair.
The Radio Boys' First Wireless Or Winning the Ferberton Prize Allen Chapman
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