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

Training with his uncle meant he could not "moan or fuss", and he said he was treated the same way as all the other boxers at the gym in Essex.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2025

Still, he stifles a moan as his wounded hand tries to manage the reins.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes