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How to use the word grunt in a Sentence?

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We are seeing a lot of poor use of capital - too much in dividends and too much in buybacks. We're very, very supportive if they've got sensible M&A to do but the actual grunt of integrating complex transactions can be really tough.

– George Godber

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's not without risk, (But) we'll put the grunt of Wesfarmers behind it.

– Wesfarmers Managing Director Richard Goyder

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm so tired of these questions all the time, it's so in a way annoying because guys grunt. I was practicing next to Nadal, and he grunts louder than me, and nobody notices that. Why ? I don't understand why.

– Belarusian Victoria Azarenka on Tuesday

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Many of the most abusive internships involving low-level tasks and grunt-type work are plainly illegal under this standard.

– Rachel Bien

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

All those equids that are doing the grunt work and supporting their human families in developing parts of the world -- the mules and donkeys -- they get very little in the way of veterinary care and very little in the way of attention.

– Thomas Witte

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Our study is the first one to show that chimps do have some control over the structure of these food grunts, when exposed to a different social culture, they can choose to shift the structure of their calls to conform and give a different grunt.

– Katie Slocombe

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.

– William Osler

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

– William Osler

added by anonymous
14 years ago

To be, or not to be that is the question Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them To die to sleep No more and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep To sleep perchance to dream ay, there's the rub For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.

– William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them.

– Danish proverb

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The mayor gave no other answer than that deep guttural grunt which is technically known in municipal interviews as refusing to commit oneself.

– Stephen Butler Leacock

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. (On relations with the US)

– Pierre Elliott Trudeau

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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