- present tense form of grit (3rd person singular).
grits
Example Sentences
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Nakamura was born in Bamako in 1995 under the name Aya Danioko, in a family of griots - traditional musicians and story-tellers.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2024
Jenkins likens what he does to the storytelling done by West African musician/oral historians known as griots.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2022
Stretching back to the West African griots, the traveling musical poets who preserved oral history, Black musicians have been in constant dialogue with their community.
From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2021
In much of sub-Saharan West Africa, for the past few thousand years, itinerant storytellers known as griots have communicated these and other tales through song.
From Salon • Apr. 20, 2021
She knew the basics about the five Paragons of Marvelling—Papa and the griots had helped her with those—but she was still learning about all the different kinds of marvels.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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