Amidst grunts and clucks of disapproval, I managed to lose myself in the crowd. |
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There are a variety of other edible pan fish that may show up, such as grunts and porgies. |
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Frogs have filled the night with croaks, yaps, grunts, chirps, trills, and warbles since the Age of Dinosaurs. |
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With many sleepy grunts and yawns, the soldiers dressed, ate a hurried meal, then slowly formed ranks. |
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Their vocalisations range from low guttural contact grunts to alarm barks and screams. |
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As they came close to the end of the forest, grunts, shouts, and curses were heard. |
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If your language consists of little more than guttural grunts and cherry pie, you can't be blamed for not getting it. |
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The crack of helmets smacking helmets and the grunts and groans all had a familiar ring. |
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The fighting was still noiseless, like a macabre puppet show, save for the snarls and grunts of his companions. |
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Only guttural grunts and surreal words-in-isolation issued from my brain and mouth while the record played. |
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His descriptions of the war at the level of the grunts in the line, though not novel, are where this book shines. |
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On the other hand, I've been a jack-squat soldier surrounded by grunts more times than you could imagine. |
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Unlike the grunts, he had a better view of the larger picture, but he may not have articulated that to those on the ground. |
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Most of the participants were ordinary combat grunts, with very few high-ranking staff and operations officers. |
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Many financial firm victims, far from being mega-rich, were young traders and technicians, the grunts of the world capital markets. |
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An infantryman who can't handle the stress of combat is liable to get himself, and some of his fellow grunts, killed in combat. |
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I did what I did because I was a dumb second lieutenant with a bunch of grunts, and we didn't know any better. |
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The most invidious policy was rotating officers out of infantry companies after six months when grunts had no such option. |
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He could hear voices behind him, the low, guttural grunts of goblins or orcs. |
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The love affair was company-wide, although not necessarily shared by the grunts, as one former grunt writes. |
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This time he scrutinizes the sacrifices of warrior grunts rather than political wonks and politicians. |
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The next morning I awoke to the bellows, grunts and snorts of a dozen huge elephant seals wallowing on the black beach below the sleeping dongas. |
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In the Marines, he was a nobody with a silver bar, too junior to matter to staffers, too senior to fit in with the enlisted grunts his own age. |
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As D-Day approached I became a zombie, all distant stares and unresponsive grunts. |
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He mostly grunts, growls and ribbits, occasionally interrupting his angry bullfrog impersonation to deliver bromides. |
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I could have just written a hundred pages of lisps and grunts and the film would have came out exactly the same. |
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If ever I need the old sawbones, pick me one with a steady hand and a good patient-survival ratio and I won't care if he talks in grunts. |
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Instead of climbing back down to the seat with many grunts and exclamations, Philip stayed perched on the piano bench and started to sing scat. |
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When excited, the binturongs emit a variety of grunts and hisses, say researchers. |
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The reef is teeming with fish, ranging from small blennies hiding in barnacles to shoals of grunts and soldierfish. |
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The slam-bang boredom created by these glorified grunge grunts is almost unlistenable. |
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When I get back to my hotel the surly doorman, who has never been known to stray from his fully enclosed cubicle, grunts at me. |
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Schools of grunts, coneys and tangs marked the entrance to the grotto, an ancient lava flow that cooled to a black tortured cavity. |
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Yet, he expresses more internal torment with a few grunts and a couple of tobacco spits than most actors can with 10 pages of dialogue. |
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The same goes for bannerfish, one-spot grunts, snappers, goatfish and jacks. |
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Was language invented extempore, or gradually developed from grunts and screeches? |
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When you win matches, people don't seem to care whether you speak the Queen's English or whether you express yourself in grunts and gestures. |
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A lone figure in tattered oily rags walked away from the work pit, ignoring the grunts and noise as slaves returned to their tasks. |
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The B-side is a series of preposterous grunts and shrieks that makes no sense whatsoever, and is barely listenable. |
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This went much the same producing loads of yellowfin croaker, grunts, sea breams and weird looking lizardfish that were well named. |
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I saw walruses and heard their grunts as they lumbered slowly off their ice floes. |
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There was a scrabble of paws and claws on stone, punctuated by a few grunts. |
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Most of the wolves were nodding to each other and conversing in wolf speech, which consisted mostly of growls, grunts, barks and howls. |
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Over his own grunts and snarls, he failed to hear the snap of the trigger mechanism. |
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There are grunts, an accompanying triangle, and even something like be-bop drums. |
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Most sleepwalkers respond to verbal stimuli with only grunts or monosyllables, or make no response at all. |
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Bri did not dare to move until she heard his shuffling feet and tired grunts descend to the bottom of the stairs and fade into the kitchen. |
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The grunts of effort, hateful little bursts of sound, are painfully frequent. |
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The blind man began singing and talking as we passed by, the two sounds rolling together into squeaks, grunts, and held notes. |
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They live and travel in small groups, communicating and expressing their moods with a variety of hoots, grunts, roars, and screams. |
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Apple Pandowdy is one of a family of simple desserts, known in different parts of the world as cobblers, duffs, grunts, slumps and pandowdies. |
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Golden eye or yellowtail grunts, chubs or scads would move unhurriedly across, changing direction with uncanny synchronisation. |
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My wife, Erin, translated what I was trying to say through grunts, screams, and hyperventilation, into words. |
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True, too, their curious grunts allowed them to collaborate in surprisingly sophisticated ways. |
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Now it is just me against an infinite army of regenerating grunts and the last few hunting quests. |
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The caves in the granite cliffs were teeming with fry and there were times when I couldn't see my buddy through clouds of fusiliers, grunts and snappers. |
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We've got eight categories in all, including best actor, actress, finest screenplay and best use of grunts. |
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His veteran centre-right rivals are tottering and the young guns are inspiring half-hearted grunts of support at best. |
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When the Army first started taking potshots at empty buildings there, I also thought it might be a case of some lower-level officers and grunts venting a little steam. |
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He grizzles, grumbles and grunts whenever he's awake, for whatever reason. |
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They shifted their hefty soldier's packs on their backs with a few grunts. |
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He grunts in ecstasy as his foot makes contact with the pigskin. |
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The only sounds he heard were the crickets chirping, the manes and tails being swished about and the occasional grunts and snorts from the animals that occupy the stables. |
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The young lady has quite an incredible voice, going from clear cut singing to powerful grunts with disturbing ease. |
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They are quiet animals but may exchange snorts, snarls, burps and grunts. |
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One of the unique aspects of the beluga is that it has a very wide range of sounds that include barks, cackles, clicks, grunts and many others. |
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The male will follow the female during this period and serenade her with grunts and humming. |
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Satisfied with my grunts and promises that everything was fine, the ADC put me on hold. |
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Screams and grunts of many goblins and other demons intermixed with the sound of roaring smith furnaces and the metallic clangs of smiths' hammers on metal. |
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Otherwise porcupines are mainly uncommunicative animals. The female may nose her young with subdued grunts and whines. |
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Seeing a Japanese woman, a supermodel no less, putting the smackdown on American grunts was fulfillment of a timely revenge fantasy for Japanese audiences. |
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But what if the grunts took over and tried to decide among themselves on the best course of action? |
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Silent at sea, these birds are the nosiest of the Auklets when in the breeding colonies, vocalizing with groans, low hoots, grunts, and barking calls. |
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They all laughed, well, more like a series of grunts and oinks. |
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His speech is short-breathed, intermitted by asthmatic grunts. |
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But he was not in a talkative mood and chomped his way grumpily through the meal, responding with grunts and monosyllables to all attempts to engage him in conversation. |
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Belugas are very vocal animals, making a cacophony of sounds that range from high-pitched whistles to low, repeated grunts. |
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The vocals are absolutely ridiculous, mostly with those weird grunts that can be heard in various places of the song. |
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Its heroes are Vietnam grunts who only want to survive, but who give it their all because their sense of responsibility to each other and to themselves demands it. |
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Mike started to speak, but only broken sentences and grunts came out. |
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He works as a convent groundskeeper and shares his family home with three housemates, but even so he is virtually isolated, getting by with a few grunts and gestures. |
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Other fish groups found on coral reefs include groupers, snappers, grunts and wrasses. |
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Luigi communicates with gestures and high-pitched grunts. |
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Extract of the film ' The king Arthur ', music composed by grunts Zimmer. |
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Features curriculum links for some jurisdictions, 24 caribou bingo cards, downloadable sound file of caribou grunts and links to other caribou resources. |
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All the floaty music in the world could not disguise my grunts as I clenched my teeth and curled my toes to fight the pain. |
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He grunts and hums sweet nothing while she will squeal in reply. |
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His irresistible and powerful rhythms were accompanied by songs with great push and humor, punctuated by yells and grunts by various members of the band. |
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Fish pots targeted spiny lobsters, grunts, boxfishes, queen triggerfishes, and parrotfishes, whereas lobster traps landed mainly spiny lobsters. |
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His gift for salty language impressed even the most hard-bitten grunts. |
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The double-reed design lets you quickly adjust from Estrus Bleats to deep buck grunts with the push of a button. |
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Freshcut ladyfish make excellent baits as do white grunts, pinfish, and scaled sardines. |
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Humpback whales make other sounds to communicate, such as grunts, groans, snorts and barks. |
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Guttural grunts and posturing is used with all but the most determined of predators with great effectiveness. |
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Her face aglimmer with self-important gloom, she bars his entry, while goodwife grunts and groans within. |
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In general, ducks make a wide range of calls, ranging from whistles, cooing, yodels and grunts. |
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Difficult to forget the theme of grunts Zimmer and Nick Glennie-Smith. |
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It might look so to those who deplore the evident decline in the old social graces, but it is salutary to speculate that the first such sentiments were probably expressed in inarticulate grunts around a fire in a cave. |
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At very low rpm, the engine consumes very little but cannot produce the required force: it vibrates and grunts and, even when the accelerator pedal is pushed all the way down, the rev counter doesn't move. |
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They communicated through grunts and onomatopoeia. |
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We can imagine a camp fire surrounded by primitive people communicating in grunts and sign language with a stranger who tells them about taming goats or planting grain, perhaps handing them a few seeds to try out. |
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Low, throaty grunts echo from either side of the path, but the forest canopy is too thick for you to spot the gorillas until you are in their midst. |
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I can say the clicky, nasal sounds of the compact, hands free calls are great for all-around grunts. |
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It is based on IDF cyberwarfare technologies that developers first used as soldiers. Traditional armies drill unquestioning obedience into their grunts. |
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Sounds expressing anger or aggravation include growls, roars, woofs, champs and smacks, while sounds expressing nervousness or pain include woofs, grunts, and bawls. |
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As the season's bait migrations move from the bay to the ocean they attract the attention of migratory fish, plus bottom fish like the snappers, groupers, porgies and grunts. |
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Pinnipeds can produce a number of vocalizations such as barks, grunts, rasps, rattles, growls, creaks, warbles, trills, chirps, chugs, clicks and whistles. |
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A dissection of a beached Vaquita showed remains of squid and grunts. |
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Sounds made by domestic sheep include bleats, grunts, rumbles and snorts. |
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Something should be done urgently to safeguard a language that already has enough to contend with in the form of estuary English, glottal stops and grunts. |
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The bawdy bird also coughs, grunts and snorts like an old man. |
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