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UK
/ɡɹˈæmpəs/
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NOUN
- predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- slaty-grey blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seas
How To Use grampus In A Sentence
- He was in poor condition and puffed like a grampus, and he seemed to have no sort of head for heights. Greenmantle
- Well, and ain't we goin 'due north just now, so that the coast lies away on our left, an' for the last three hours you've bin bearin 'away to the _right_, something like nor' and by east, if it's not nor '_east_ an' by east, the coast being all the while on yer port beam, you grampus -- that's so, ain't it? Lost in the Forest Wandering Will's Adventures in South America
- He was like a grampus when he set his teeth, and a southwester couldn't blow harder if he chose. The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance
- Brianna was incandescent, and breathing like a grampus. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
- However, the fact remained that the mention of her name conjured up assorted visions-starting with Jamie kissing her ardently in an alcove at Castle Leoch, and ending with him fumbling up her nightgown in the darkness of their marriage bed, hands warm and eager on her thighs-that made me snort like a grampus and feel the blood throb hotly in my temples. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
- He breathed like a grampus for a bit, though, and finally, his complexion began to fade back to something like normal. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
- Wenger joined the Gunners on October 1, 1996 after successful managerial stints at both Monaco and Japanese outfit Nagoya Grampus Eight.
- Jan held on and breathed through his nose, snorting like a grampus. JAN, THE UNREPENTANT
- It shares with the southern parks abundant marine life: Kamchatka crab Paralithodes camtschatica, sea otter (900 animals), sea lion Eumetopias jubatus (EN, 800 breeding animals), Kuril seal Phoca vitulina stejnegeri (500), spotted P. largha and ringed seals P. hispida ochotensis, Risso's dolphin grampus griseus, narwhal Monodon monoceros and walrus Odobenus rosmarus divergens. Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation
- Here they waited some little time while the marriage party enrolled themselves; and meanwhile the wheezy little pew – opener — partly in consequence of her infirmity, and partly that the marriage party might not forget her — went about the building coughing like a grampus. Dombey and Son
