And last year the International Tennis Federation began considering banning grunts.
Given the propensity for human error in such circumstances, mechanised grunts might make such calls better than flesh-and-blood officers.
But ape laughter doesn't sound like the human version. It may be rapid panting, or slower noisy breathing or a short series of grunts.
Which is worth more: a star or seven grunts?
He grunts an' frets a good bit when he's bein' settled into his chair.
Young tom brought the platter of yellowtail, yellow and white grunts, and rock hind up into the cockpit.
Not only did they sacrifice funding for border policing; they also lost a guest-worker programme that would have allowed hundreds of thousands of legal grunts into the country each year.
Their replies were no more than grunts of acknowledgement.
These changes didn't evolve overnight, but it's hard to pinpoint when we moved beyond primitive grunts and started talking.
Every spring, when the clouds and fog gather conch at shallow doors and other beaches, the sound of the grunts is often clearly heard as they pass the mountain road.
My efforts at conversation with the driver resulted only in grunts and indecipherable phrases.
Photograph by David Doubilet – Upholstered with luminous sponges and corals, the bridge of the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Duane attracts schools of smallmouth grunts—and divers.
Make your grunts louder, faster, lower, deeper, or all of the above.
Death metal vocals are often guttural roars, grunts, snarls, and low gurgles colloquially called death grunts or death growls.
In any case, it 32 tops sleeping in a hole in the cold ground, a moldy rabbit skin for your pillow, and the grunts and sighs of a dozen changelings anxious in their dreams.
The question of when grunts and yelps turned into words and phrases is a tricky one.
As you can tell from the frog song recording, the mating calls of this species include a whine followed by a series of grunts, or "chucks."
No, not because they think the public will appreciate these sweet sounds (they think we are uncultured grunts), but because they hope it will make naughty youngsters flee.
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