groan

At the university, shelves groan with jagged pieces of spines, necks and legs that to an untrained eye resemble battered stones.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

From time to time, they hear him speak or groan.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

As I set off, the shoes emitted a peppy clip-clop and a satisfying groan of distressed leather with each step.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

Slowly, “Undertone” reveals itself to be all style and very little substance, with enough baffling character choices to make you groan.

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026

Danny asked with a groan as he struggled to wrench himself loose.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

As they watched themselves warbling, a camera captured the full array of their facial expressions—moans, groans and self-conscious laughter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

“Well, what exactly are you talking about, Whoopi?” he answered, generating groans from the studio’s audience.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

But even here, the long arm of the crisis is visible, with the TV reception periodically freezing, triggering loud groans from supporters clad in the yellow Brazilian jerseys of stars Vinicius Junior, Neymar and others.

From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026

“You might,” Bianco said, prompting a nasty look from Porter and groans and boos from the studio audience.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

That elicited a set of groans from Moss’s homeroom, and Mrs. Torrance was the loudest of the bunch.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

All around this one personal tragedy are the sights and smells of many others from that moment Wednesday evening when the earth abruptly groaned and rumbled with quakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5, in rapid succession.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

The PGA Tour groaned about fighting an asymmetrical war against a rival with a bottomless wallet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

The door groaned open, and out crawled Ernesto, blinking into the warm Southern California air.

From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026

Then I groaned some more and while I didn’t need an encore, I left the theater humming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025

They stretched out as her barn groaned and collapsed, shooting sparks up to illuminate the black clouds like fireflies in the night.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

For ninety minutes at least, supporters and critics found themselves watching the same screen, celebrating the same attacks and groaning at the same missed opportunities.

From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 2026

I’m not sure it’s a hard rule, but it feels like one when considering the silly groaning over defending champion and freshly-crowned back-to-back NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

Anyway, before we could respond, he gestured at a TV mounted on the wall, level with the highest shelves groaning with organic kibble and handmade toys, and sang out, “Because there he is!”

From Salon ● May 2, 2026

She's a Hollywood A-lister, with a mantelpiece groaning under the weight of awards.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025

European newspapers, letters from earlier immigrants, and advertisements from steamship companies were filled with accounts of tables groaning with food in a country where everyone could get rich.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler