Dictionary Entry
A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.
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Poetry examples for “grunt”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Leaps oer the orchard hedge and knarls the grass.
The swine run round and grunt and play with straw,
Snatching out hasty mouthfuls from the stack.
Read full poem →While they their mud-lost sandals hunt
May all the curses, which they grunt
In raging moan like goaded hog,
Read full poem →Voices would grunt, "Keep to your right,--make way!"
When squeezing past the men from the front-line:
Read full poem →Crumpled and spun him sideways, knocked him out
To grunt and wriggle: none heeded him; he choked
And fought the flapping veils of smothering gloom,
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I heard the Yellow-Pressmen grunt and squeal;
And with my trusty bombers turned and went
Read full poem →That makes us weep, laugh, grunt and groan, and shout
Doleful heroics, pinching gestures forth