counters

Example Sentences

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Tennis players have long been known to be grunters, usually with some form of “ha-uh!” or “ha-ooah!”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2021

“The grunters sent me to the wrong item on the list.”

From Nature • Jul. 14, 2020

The only people I played against that were grunters were inferior players that looked for a distracting advantage - almost uniformly to their disappointment.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2018

Snickerers and snorters keep their mouths closed, titterers and grunters pulse through parted teeth, wailers and barkers yawp through gaping mouths and throats.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 5, 2015

He's flung pearls away, all the splendid pearls of himself, flung them to the grunters as they did in the Bible, and all they wanted was common greasy farthings!

From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]