grunt at

Frequency: 7.09.2 per million words

To direct a grunt towards someone or something.

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Examples (10)

  • His father grunted at him as he left the room.
  • She just grunted at me when I said good morning.
  • The surly teenager grunted at his mother's request to clean his room.
  • Don't just grunt at me; use your words to explain what's wrong.
  • The burly guard grunted at our passports and waved us through.
  • He would often just grunt at any question he didn't want to answer.
  • When I proposed the new idea, my boss merely grunted at the presentation slide.
  • The large pig in the pen started to grunt at us, hoping for food.
  • Annoyed by the interruption, the writer grunted at the ringing phone before silencing it.
  • He was so absorbed in his work that he only grunted at the delivery person who brought his lunch.