How to Use grunt in a Sentence

grunt

1 of 2 verb

• She grunted a few words in reply, then turned and walked away.
• The workers were grunting with effort as they lifted the heavy furniture.
• The man grunted, turned over the slop pail, and sat down to remove his boots.
  — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 15 Mar. 2023
• The rest of the camels slid their necks between the pen bars and grunted merrily.
  — Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot, 3 Aug. 2017
• Ear to the wrist: blood must grunt all day or relax when no one listens.
  — Jennifer Nelson Anne Boyer, New York Times, 22 June 2023
• Stracke hung a tree stand in the buck’s wheelhouse, then grunted and rattled the giant in for a 5-yard shot.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 1 Nov. 2023
• The room was buzzing with dudes grunting over the clatter of metal on metal.
  — Gray Chapman, SELF, 8 Sep. 2018
• Think of the tempo, be aware of your breathing, watch yourself on screen and grunt in time with yourself.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Men's Health, 28 Nov. 2022
• Also watch for a head thrown back, shaking of the head, grunting and snorting.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
• And grunting for her is her way of focusing and getting in the present and creating the flow and rhythm.
  — Ravi Ubha, CNN, 30 May 2017
• For six hours, the truck lurches and grunts its way back to civilization.
  — Carl Fincke, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2020
• The bears growl and grunt at each other while using their jaws and paws as weapons to batter each other.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 27 Feb. 2023
• With only minutes of shooting light left, Stenger heard rustling, grunted a few times, and the buck came right to his tree.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 4 Dec. 2019
• Bev and Emily grunted their way up the truck’s narrow ramp, taking frequent breaks, and shoved the love seat against the truck’s wall.
  — J. Robert Lennon, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
• His comedy is of the loud type, full of face mugging, pratfalls and even grunting.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 7 July 2023
• The gymnasts do not grunt with effort like the women who spin like a top and fling the hammer or discus far into the distance.
  — Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2021
• As Cal (a character created for the film), Mr. Fassbender gets to kick, punch and grunt with his shirt off a lot.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2016
• The grunting sound is what happens when breathing is resumed.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2023
• Your caveman boyfriend grunts to alert the rest of your tribe to this incredible discovery.
  — Lana Schwartz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
• Non-verbal cues, like grunting to poop or pulling at their diaper.
  — Jessica Booth, Parents, 23 June 2023
• On the witness stand, Paltrow testified that Sanderson made lots of strange grunting noises at the time of the crash, which left her confused.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2023
• In early 2005, Pruetz and her team identified Foudouko as the alpha male—the one male to which all others pant-grunted, a sign of submission.
  — National Geographic, 30 Jan. 2017
• In other words, the outcome of the game may be determined very early on in the match, leading the players to grunt accordingly.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2017
• On that day, three minutes into the meeting the local lawnmowers will snarl, grunt and wail in unison right through your three-hour meeting. Write to me.
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2020
• And so ensues much punching and grunting and kicking and gouging and shooting, and shooting, and shooting.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• The spot was in a hardwood bottom with plenty of oak trees dropping acorns, and Rickey blind grunted and rattled to try and draw the enormous buck into gun range.
  — Outdoor Life, 8 Nov. 2023
• Older, wiser, and accompanied by his son, Kratos now slaughters and grunts his way through draugr, ogre, and valkyrie.
  — Popular Science, 13 Apr. 2020
• While Modell spoke, Groza stood behind the couch, eating a sandwich and grunting his disapproval.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 9 Sep. 2017
• Anyway, for all that ails tennis, grunting never much bothered me.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• When Ward bent down to tie Baker's shoes, the drummer grunted and bellowed like a wounded water buffalo.
  — Gogo Lidz, Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2013

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grunt

2 of 2 noun

• I could hear the grunts of the movers as they lifted the heavy furniture.
• He answered her with a grunt.
• He's just a grunt in the attorney's office.
• He was a grunt who worked his way up to become an officer.
• The grunt of a bull moose rolled sonorously through the pines.
  — Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2020
• The woman gave a grunt and clicked her tongue and the dog slunk back to her.
  — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2021
• Ten hours to Charlotte to work, help teams, do the grunt jobs.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 19 Feb. 2020
• There simply isn’t the grunt there to get the most out of an action movie.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 4 May 2022
• The only sounds left for the night were the grunts of work going into the heavy bag.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• That's enough grunt to scoot the pricier Plaid to 60 mph in 2.1 seconds.
  — Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 13 Jan. 2023
• What’s more, the 928 packed a ton of grunt, which was perfect for what the car needed to do on the big screen.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 21 July 2021
• The noises from above were atrocious: blasts of fire, grunts of pain, shrieks of rage.
  — cleveland, 19 Nov. 2019
• Of course, Ferrari’s first badged V-6 is by no means short on grunt.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 21 Jan. 2022
• And then, with a grunt heard ‘round the park, the Marine veteran whacks the ball to deep left field.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2020
• The crack of a rifle, the grunt of a polar bear, the spout of an orca, the bone-on-bone clash of narwhal tusks.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2021
• Matthew doesn’t speak but can grimace, shrug, grunt, nod, or frown.
  — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• The mill’s prodigious low-end grunt shows up with even the slightest touch of throttle.
  — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 7 June 2022
• After 15 minutes, at around 11 p.m., Black heard through the phone a grunt, a thud and then silence.
  — Moe Clark, ProPublica, 5 Dec. 2022
• Even so, once the tachometer needle swung past the 2500 rpm mark, the M Coupe shored up enough grunt to come into its own.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 15 Mar. 2023
• There’s the churning of sediment, the hums, grunts and growls of fishes and turtles.
  — Shreya Dasgupta, Quartz India, 21 Nov. 2019
• Their distinctive calls are a mixture of barks, growls and grunts.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
• And there's no additional grunt to be had in the F Sport model.
  — Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 15 Mar. 2022
• Whales sing, toadfish hum, cod grunt, and bearded seals trill.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
• Aatami merely looks at them, points his pickax like the Grim Reaper with his scythe and grunts.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
• If a squirrel starts barking, a blue jay squawks, or a crow starts fussing, throw a grunt that way.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 2 Nov. 2020
• Even on a clean bench with a spotless bar, the bench-presser exhales clouds of grunt with every up-push.
  — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
• These tools liberate programmers from a lot of grunt work, but can add heft to a project.
  — Klint Finley, Wired, 4 Apr. 2020
• Brito shot video from the roof overlooking the ring, close enough to document every smack and grunt.
  — New York Times, 2 Sep. 2021
• The spot featured Kelce among middle-aged suburban men settling into lawn chairs with grunts and groans.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2024
• Millions of Americans, with grunts or glee, tap at their devices or wind their watch hands, manually — and mentally — changing the time to reflect a change in seasons.
  — Diba Mohtasham, NPR, 8 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024