GRUNT in a Sentence

Learn GRUNT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
40 example sentences for GRUNT, such as:
1. His only answer was a grunt.
2. He grunted as the bullet hit him.
3. Archie grunted and spat on the floor.
4. Pigs were grunting and squealing in the yard.
5. It was not an unfriendly grunt, but it was a grunt.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of GRUNT
grunt
 n.  medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught
 n.  an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  Archie, with a grunt, got an arm under Ashley and raised him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
2  Carol thought she heard a grunt from the traveling salesman at the end of the table, and Kennicott's jerking elbow was a grunt embodied.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  I sang out, I could not help it now; and giving a sudden grunt of astonishment he began feeling me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
4  If he aimed at some changing form through the smoke, he pulled the trigger with a fierce grunt, as if he were dealing a blow of the fist with all his strength.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
5  Several little trifles, which Tom had treasured, chiefly because they had amused Eva, he looked upon with a contemptuous grunt, and tossed them over his shoulder into the river.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  He very seldom talked much and sometimes did not even answer Mary's questions except by a grunt, but this morning he said more than usual.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  It was not an unfriendly grunt, but it was a grunt.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
8  The stranger, with a comfortable kind of grunt over his pipe, put his legs up on the settle that he had to himself.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
9  At that the Editor turned to his knife and fork with a grunt, and the Silent Man followed suit.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In II
10  In a corner of the room something red and tiny gave a grunt and squealed in Mary Bogdanovna's trembling white hands.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IX
11  The old sow had finally been captured and she and her brood rooted and grunted happily under the house where they were penned.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
12  Archie grunted and spat on the floor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
13  "I don't do no business except for cash," grunted Axel.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  The authority grunted, "Nothing to it."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  Kennicott looked at him heavily, and grunted, "I don't know a thing about it."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
Example Sentence:
1  Meanwhile Armstrong continues to grunt, to growl, to bite into his gums but all to no avail: he's over five minutes behind now.
2  His only answer was a grunt.
3  He grunted as the bullet hit him.
4  Pigs were grunting and squealing in the yard.
5  The pigs were grunting contentedly as they ate their food.