Groan

//ɡɹəʊn//

"Groan" in a Sentence (17 examples)

I am tired of hearing you moan and groan.

Tom stifled a groan.

A groan escaped him.

He let out an exaggerated groan and put his hand on the doorknob.

What was that groan for?

Tom let out a groan.

And forth they bring the broidered tapestry, / with purple dyed and wrought full cunningly. / The tables groan with silver; there are told / the deeds of prowess for the gazer's eye, / a long, long series, of their sires of old, / traced from the nation's birth, and graven in the gold.

"So saying, his mighty spear, with all his force, / full at the flank against the ribs he drave, / and pierced the bellying framework of the horse. / Quivering, it stood; the hollow chambers gave / a groan, that echoed from the womb's dark cave."

Nor hath vengeance found / none save the Trojans; there the victors groan, / and valour fires the vanquished. All around / wailings, and wild affright and shapes of death abound.

So, when an aged ash on mountain tall / stout woodmen strive, with many a rival blow, / to rend from earth; awhile it threats to fall, / with quivering locks and nodding head; now slow / it sinks and, with a dying groan lies low, / and spreads its ruin on the mountain side.

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We groaned at his awful jokes.

The wooden table groaned under the weight of the banquet.

My Lord of Hereford here whom you call King, / Is a foule traitour to proud Herefords King, / And if you crowne him let me propheſie, / The bloud of Engliſh ſhall manure the ground, / And future ages groane for this foule act, [...]

Designed to accommodate 60,000 people per day in the 1960s, the main concourse, entrances and passageways around the station were by then positively groaning under the weight of more than 140,000 passengers every 24 hours.

That night the table in the outer dining room was just groaning with good things.

Bookshelves groan under the bloated weight of tomes detailing Great Straight Marriages.

Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, / Or that which groaneth to be so.

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