moan
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“Otherwise, you sit there and moan and groan and don’t vote. They’re going to do what they want,” David Goodman said.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
The score by Joseph Bishara is shivery with chorales that moan like wraiths in the wind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
To mention the most popular moan, the silver screen has been losing its monopoly on displaying moving pictures since the arrival of TV in the 1940s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
Training with his uncle meant he could not "moan or fuss", and he said he was treated the same way as all the other boxers at the gym in Essex.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2025
A moan escaped him as he pressed his palms against his head, trying to block out something she could not hear.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
"People are paying three times more for a loaf of bread now," she moans, her fingers resting on the soft white slices inside the plastic.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
“Why am I getting involved with a cinephile?” moans Beau-Beau, speaking for many an indie producer to follow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Phyllis, who always sees herself as the victim and not the aggressor, moans.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
It arrived as the music of dire necessity, the work song, the psalm, and was subsequently used to distract and entertain captors, or to scare them off with screams and moans they couldn’t decipher.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
“What have I done to her?” he moans, tugging his hair.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Many in the audience laughed and applauded, when they should have gasped or moaned.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026
She sang open-throated declarations, recited broken poetic verses, scatted with the authority of a jazz singer, moaned with bluesy intent, and occasionally let loose an unbridled shriek or giggle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
Fails tried to get her daughter comfortable as she cried and moaned.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2024
He moaned that the UK was a “complete disaster”.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2024
“Who made him Chief, anyway,” Slopper moaned, kicking rocks as we started into the woods.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
Here, Fay Victor, a uniquely daring and creative singer, adorns her vocal with all manner of creaking, wailing, moaning and scatting, yet she maintains Bey’s feeling of directing a congregation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
The director’s moaning score here, supplemented with sputtering engines and clanking chains, underline the movie’s ghost-story vibe — the sense that poor Nick is both alive and dead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
“Get me rewrite!” he seems to be moaning.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
"If you don't like it, don't use them. Agents who are moaning would struggle with their business if they decided to come off it," Keogh said.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026
When Uncle D came home from Vietnam, he became like a ghost rattling his chain and moaning in the night.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
