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grunts

noun as in infantry

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When he wasn’t examining extinct rodent-like skulls in Uruguay, Darwin remarked on “ludicrous” looking capybara making “peculiar” grunts.

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She looks that Medicaid doctor right in his very symmetrical face and says through grunts and gritted teeth: “My girl doesn’t like to wait.”

The show had been built around 37-year-old Allen’s particular brand of machismo stand-up comedy and, opposite his grunts and jabs, Fisher’s comebacks were sounding more like pleas.

He spoke mostly in grunts and curses, but I gathered that he had been a marauder in the Caspian Sea, until even his fellow pirates had to be rid of him.

“Folks ask GPS for the nearest store, it brings ’em here,” the clerk grunts.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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