Grunt in a sentence as a noun

So you could replace `make` with `grunt` or `gulp` or whatever.

Well, at least I have done some grunt work to illustrate his arguments.

Laughably my command thought I was undercover CID, how else would a dumb grunt be so smart?

If nothing else it was a great way to learn about what the company did by doing low-level grunt work.

Grunt in a sentence as a verb

Because if you're putting 8 hours per day into order-following grunt work, you're an idiot.

Putting the really on the end turns the "how are you" from a monolithic grunt of acknowledgement into a real sentence.

Here is an anecdote: A similar data-entry grunt creates a set of excel macros on his private time at home, then presents his work to his team at a meeting.

Doing it by hand is also strictly grunt work: you don't gain anything by having placed it by hand other than the possibility that you made a mistake somewhere and now your element will never be found.

Grunt definitions

noun

the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs

See also: oink

noun

an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker; "infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts"; "he went from grunt to chairman in six years"

noun

medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught

verb

issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise; "He grunted his reluctant approval"