moan

Example Sentences

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While Americans moan about $4 to $5 a gallon gas, Europeans pay the equivalent of $7 to $9 a gallon.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

The score by Joseph Bishara is shivery with chorales that moan like wraiths in the wind.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

Navalny was brought back to his cell, his wife said, where he lay down on the ground, pulled his legs up to his stomach and began to moan from pain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 17, 2025

Then people moan about the noise, when the venue was there first.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2024

The deserted stoplight creaked as it swung, and that little lonesome moan of a sound broke open whatever was already cracked inside me.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry