Groans

We could hear the groans of the injured man.

He roars and groans the Dnieper wide.

Everybody groans.

A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

There were screams and groans.

So engrossed was he with his occupation that he appeared to have forgotten our presence, for he chattered away to himself under his breath the whole time, keeping up a running fire of exclamations, groans, whistles, and little cries suggestive of encouragement and of hope.

With a sudden chill weakening every part of his body, Aeneas groans and, stretching both hands to the stars, cries out thus: "O thrice and four times blessed, whose lot it was to perish before the faces of their fathers under the high walls of Troy!"

Arrived at the door of the apartment, Colonel Ashton knocked and called, but received no answer except stifled groans.

I can't stand hearing groans from anyone.

Anza, these are the groans that some hear at night, in houses where people have been cut throats or have suffered a violent death.