groaning

“He started to make groaning sounds. It was like he was in pain but he could not tell us he was in pain.”

Ohtani had had a quiet outing, but the slightly thinned-out crowd belted out one last chant for his final at-bat, groaning loudly when the ball glanced off his left toe, leading to a walk.

“This is a groaning little morning crowd, huh?”

I can’t help groaning in appreciation.

On a skit near the end of the album, Slim sounds like he’s crawling out of a grave, groaning like Tolkien’s Golem: