groan

Example Sentences

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Slowly, “Undertone” reveals itself to be all style and very little substance, with enough baffling character choices to make you groan.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

I can snarkily compare it to the mumps, and groan all I want about civilization’s decline, but come on.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

"But they also need to be poor jokes, jokes that make us groan," Prof Wiseman adds.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025

Meanwhile, what kind of a cosmic wrong was created when, every time we think about “Scent of a Woman,” we groan?

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2025

And then he heard a deep groan and a crack that echoed above the wind.

From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis