Ferries grunting on the river.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The authors of the study say they hope their findings lead to a reduction in grunting on the court.    From Wordnik.com.  [Week in Ideas] Reference

If the grunting is a silly rule to him, apologize and go elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  ["It's an attack on my character, and it's very embarrassing, and an insult."] Reference

I've heard some gym "grunting" that's more like screaming.    From Wordnik.com.  ["It's an attack on my character, and it's very embarrassing, and an insult."] Reference

There was a kind of grunting going on, as well as what sounded like somebody retching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Has Sex With Marilyn Monroe] Reference

These tics may be accompanied by verbal tics, such as grunting, shouting, barking, and throat clearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emaxhealth] Reference

 As the sun began to set I could hear his grunting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor, Dead Hamilton] Reference

We are just one step closer to pointing and grunting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Military Contractor Blackwater Changes Its Name] Reference

On the women's side, I confess to having grunting issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bummer Summer] Reference

You're grunting with it, and you know how it come from here?.    From Wordnik.com.  ['What Is Soul?' New Faces Have Answers] Reference

And the girls heard the hungry grunting of a pig in its sty.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference

But again the grunting of swine and cries of grief are heard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

I like the funny grunting quacking sound it makes when I grab it.    From Wordnik.com.  [13 Halloweens] Reference

But after 20 minutes of sweating and grunting, Burnes had a revelation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard to the Core] Reference

I was reduced to grunting and clutching at his sleeve to convey the message.    From Wordnik.com.  [White-Collar Man In A Blue-Collar World] Reference

Fleetfoot mimicked the reindeer's movements and the grunting sounds they made.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Later Cave-Men] Reference

Sleek, unwieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference

He made plenty of fuss over it, too, puffing and grunting in his own peculiar way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference

They moved about and made low grunting sounds as though they were a reindeer herd.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Later Cave-Men] Reference

Ruth's father stared at a newspaper, grunting when he wanted Ruth to turn the page.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island] Reference

The lights are bright and there's no music, just Brent's increasingly loud grunting.    From Wordnik.com.  [There's nothing quite like a bad dance scene] Reference

As Ruthie heaved over, grunting, theHooter'slogo stretched across her ribs and belly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cool Aunt] Reference

       “You're going to kill him,” she implores above the grunting and shuffling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spirit Upwelling] Reference

In the farms were styes full of half-starved pigs, grunting and groaning with hideous effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference

So Auge and his men start to head back, grunting as they climb over the six-foot grapefield walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [For The U.S., Cat And Mouse In Taliban Heartland] Reference

Cranking the lever or grunting with the barrel may seem like fun at first but it can get old fast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

He'd start grunting while the victim screamed and whined and dripped saliva and tears onto the school yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boom! You're Smithereens] Reference

Martina Navratilova mocked her for not wearing a bra and said her on-court grunting "sounded like a stuck pig.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Monica's Dark Odyssey] Reference

For 7 1/2 years he had lain in a nursing home, sometimes grunting or grimacing and occasionally blinking his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Him, It Was Still 1988: The 'Coma Cop' Awakens] Reference

You knew when those enormous boulders were coming, because you could hear Denny grunting with the weight of the things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just Who Does Miller Think He Is?] Reference

She placed them against the wall, grunting in the process, and I could see the outline of her spine through her clothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palisades] Reference

Defense Pork: Of course the Pentagon itself is the biggest pork bonanza of all, a virtual Iowa county fall of grunting sows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anatomy Of Pork] Reference

Instead, he dropped to his knees in front of her, pulled her legs roughly apart and began to lick at her, grunting in his effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hundred Dollar Hit] Reference

He sits with his plate in front of the television, staring past it into the overgrown front yard as he eats, grunting occasionally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slut Whore] Reference

  Back then, while sweating and grunting, I dreamed of growing a chest and arms that would attract giggling girls like bees to honey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locker-Room Heroes] Reference

Van Dyken has always been among the fiercest mental competitors, grunting loudly on the blocks and spitting pool water in opponents 'lanes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grannies Of The Games] Reference