moan

Example Sentences

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While Americans moan about $4 to $5 a gallon gas, Europeans pay the equivalent of $7 to $9 a gallon.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

The second time I saw the road thriller “Sirāt,” I couldn’t wait to hear the audience moan.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025

Navalny was brought back to his cell, his wife said, where he lay down on the ground, pulled his legs up to his stomach and began to moan from pain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 17, 2025

Patient Fearghas Powell said: "I feel like I moan a lot but it’s because I’m just impatient with this life, I want my old life back."

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2024

And then, as though to confirm her in all her dark imaginings, he began, as she reached the subway steps, to whimper, and moan, and cry.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin