Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: grunting
IPA transcription: [ɡɹ'ʌntɪŋ]
Pronunciations of grunting
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Usage examples
  • A week or two later, in the New Smyrna flat-woods, I heard in the distance a sound which I took for the grunting of pigs.
  • "Then there would be a certain amount of grunting to do before Eagle-eye could state his business, and after that much talk, talk.
  • And into the world he went till he came to the nether cliffs that stand by the inner mountains in the soul and heart of the earth where the Earthquake dwelleth alone, asleep but astir as he sleeps, breathing and moving his legs, and grunting aloud in the dark.
  • The stupid bewilderment on his face was so intensely comic that both Dick and Torpenhow, still panting and unstrung from a fight for life, had roared with laughter, in which the man seemed as if he would join, but, as his lips parted in a sheepish grin, the agony of death came upon him, and he pitched grunting at their feet.
  • Silver hobbled, grunting, on his crutch; his nostrils stood out and quivered; he cursed like a madman when the flies settled on his hot and shiny countenance; he plucked furiously at the line that held me to him and from time to time turned his eyes upon me with a deadly look. Certainly he took no pains to hide his thoughts, and certainly I read them like print.
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