Moan

//məʊn//

"Moan" in a Sentence (21 examples)

I am tired of hearing you moan and groan.

The pain is always milder than the moan.

Tom gave a low moan.

As she was tied and gagged in the dark room, Layla was moaning and she could hear a person moan back.

We felt the ship moan in all its boards and the wood begin to tremble from the bow to the stern.

A long, low moan, indescribably sad, swept over the moor. It filled the whole air, and yet it was impossible to say whence it came.

A long, low moan, indescribably sad, swept over the moor.

They, in the rock reverberant held fast, / moan at the doors. Here, throned aloft, he reigns; / his sceptre calms their rage, their violence restrains: / else earth and sea and all the firmament / the winds together through the void would sweep.

I'm tired of hearing you moan and groan.

Sami heard another moan.

let out a deep moan

We heard the distant moan of a stag in pain.

to make one's moan

it shall be my daily grief and moan, that I am so dull, & do so little[…]But if when all is done that we can do, you will leave us nothing but our tears and moans for self-destroyers, the sin is yours, and the suffering shall be yours.

to thee therefore oh Lord do I make my moan, to thee I render my humble petition, and pour out my soul which hath sinned against thee: Oh Lord, I beseech thee for thy infinite mercy in Jesus Christ, to take pity upon mee[…]

Much did the Craven seeme to mone his case […].

1708, Matthew Prior, the Turtle and the Sparrow Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan / My dear Columbo, dead and gone.

She moaned with pleasure and squirmed with delight from receiving oral sex.

They shared a common dread that he would begin moaning.

‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned.

which infinitely moans me

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