moan

Example Sentences

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It’s a tantalizing concept — but I confessed to Moan that I worried it would backfire.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2023

Both of those men, Father Francis Moan and Father John Lange, were said to have died within hours of each other.

From Fox News • May 10, 2020

Of the sculptor Clare Sheridan, who had turned to journalism, she wrote: “Then the lady’s interviews/ Crashed upon the daily news;/ Moan we now another lay – ‘Give, oh, give her back her clay!’”

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2020

Dolemite Is My Name is directed by Craig Brewer, who broke through with Hustle & Flow, weathered critical backlash for Black Snake Moan, and recently reunited with Murphy to shoot the Coming to America sequel.

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2019

I’d seent this afore in Possum Moan; when you summed it up with his bow legs, these was signs that someone had got a bad dose of rickets when they was young.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis