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Sentence Examples He groaned inwardly and began to grope along his side table, trying to find the receiver. Kei groaned as for the third time that morning his hand sleepily fumbled in an attempt to silence the irritating buzz of the battery alarm clock. The shutters of derelict buildings creaked and groaned like mall nourished prisoners in cages as he passed them. Brad only groaned once as Kurt and Vincent lifted him between them, and then the dark and painless unconscious oblivion claimed him again. Rian groaned, pulling on a pair of shoes that used to belong to a previous occupant of the room. She groaned as she did, making a mental note to mend the slightly torn cover even if her sewing handiwork wasn't of the best quality. When it touched his eyelids, he groaned in annoyance, his eyes slowly opening. Alex shrugged as she dug out a small chunk and stuck it in her mouth and groaned in heartfelt appreciation. I'd drop the ball or strike out at bat, while the rest of my so-called teammates buried their heads in their hands and groaned. Once again, Mask and Cat had nixed the plan for strip poker, and the guys had groused and groaned but accepted it reluctantly. Aziza hit the end button of her cell and groaned again, throwing her phone to the side. I groaned and twisted on my bed, pulling the covers to block out the sunlight streaming cheerfully into my room. I groaned as she launched into a speech that was way too loud and full of pep for the morning. He groaned and this time, turned me around so that I was pinned against the wall. As the months groaned by there were rumours of big price increases, insatiable thirst and catastrophic suspension failure. For a while the ship kept bucking and sidling, the sails filling, now on one tack, now on another, till the mast groaned aloud under the strain. Beside them, the table groaned under the weight of heaping platters of food. He inwardly groaned, he was never going to get out of it now, and he did not relish waking her up. The air was beginning to heat up, the city had little air and I inwardly groaned at the prospect of spending the day in that heat. She groaned as she flexed her right ankle, it figured, she'd twisted it when she fell. Show More Sentences I unzipped the covering and inwardly groaned at the sight of the flimsy white dress. Frosted store windows groaned with a cornucopia of Irish linens, Madras shawls, China tea, Moroccan slippers, Scottish whisky and Madeira wine. She groaned and stood up, staggering a bit as sleep continued to fog her brain. I groaned, but followed him and looked behind me to find everyone else coming too. I groaned in pure bliss, feeling the countless muscles that cramped when I slept in the Shadow Hall start to relax. The large wooden doors of the gate creaked and groaned as they slowly swung from their resting place. The metal door groaned and creaked before sliding open with a long screech. Muscles groaned as they were used one more time, and his creaky voice almost didn't make it out. I groaned when my head hit the table and a long stream of cusses came flying out under my breath. Colleen groaned and rolled onto her side, looking deploringly at her mother. I poked him, and he groaned, rolling over to expose a greenish countenance. He was going to have to sit up, and he nearly groaned out loud at the thought. He slowly pulled himself up, and groaned as pain shot up and down his body. I groaned and complained that I was tired, but she insisted that it was my fault for staying up with Peter in his room all night. Normally, I'd have groaned and complained about him touching me, but I didn't say anything. Through all of the above, not once has Tiger moaned or groaned about how unlucky he was or, conversely, how lucky his opponent was. The old stairs creaked and groaned as I climbed them and suddenly, I felt very much like an intruder. The metal rungs creaked and groaned as she put her weight on them, but held firm against the stone wall. The ancient, dusty floorboards groaned miserably as Jacob laboriously climbed off his mattress. For more than twenty years the anthracite miners have groaned under most intolerable and inhuman conditions. Show More Sentences Nora groaned loudly and threw her dishrag on the table, then headed outside. I groaned, realising that although I was dog-tired, I couldn't get back to sleep. I groaned inwardly and felt my spirits dampen as the realization dawned on me. He looked down at the fragments of glass glinting from a now thoroughly soaked patch of carpet and groaned. As a teenager we lived in a large, rambling old house which creaked and groaned like an old man's knees. As my bus slowly rattled and groaned its way out of La Paz for the long journey south, I shuddered at what I'd let myself in for. Pulling himself back up to his feet, Seraphine groaned as he held out a hand to Erian, aiding him in standing as well. The winch operator, a veteran of hundreds of air-sea rescues, said the equipment groaned with the weight of the men. I groaned because I was still dead tired and nothing he was saying was registering in my mind. The ancient, dusty floorboards groaned miserably as he laboriously climbed off his mattress. Minerva groaned as her head fell forward, her forehead resting on the rim of the steering wheel. She groaned, the sound of her own voice sending ripples of pain through her own head. He started to get up and groaned aloud as all sorts of aches and pains assailed him. I groaned internally as I recalled the plane ride where I had maladroitly gotten sick all over Ross. Tracy groaned fearfully as she paces back and forth alone around the stairs going up to the B building and the portables. Mala groaned, picked up her bedroll, and moved to where their horses were tethered. A loud bang accompanied with boisterous laughter startled her out from her thoughts and she groaned to herself. Standing on her sore feet, Lily groaned as she scuffled her feet to the chair in the corner. He groaned, said something in Serbian, then rolled over and went back to sleep. I groaned, grabbing my pillow and placing it over my ears, blocking all noise out. Show More Sentences Arun groaned, a sound that redoubled in frustration as he saw the wooden bowl resting on the ground. Bryan groaned loudly and buried his head in his pillow, sounding absolutely miserable. For the second day in a row, VRV Singh charged in and caught the splice on several occasions but groaned and cussed as catches went to ground. Tom groaned incoherently, having still not recovered from the powerful blow that he'd received. I examined the timetable Blu-Tacked to the inside of my locker door, and groaned. My somewhat rusty culinary skills creaked and groaned like a wooden ship straining against high winds. The remaining bolts which held the rail to the metal stakes creaked and groaned with the strain. I groaned and rolled over as some obnoxious buzzing noise interrupted my nap. A heavy and ominous quiet descended on the room, disturbed only by the noise from outside and by Carl who groaned in pain. Kam groaned into her pillow, rolling over to slam the alarm off. It groaned and stretched as if just being awakened, then slowly took a step out of the once again inanimate pile to peer through the cracks in the boarded window. The stairs creaked and groaned and rattled in protest, and the hammering of Chris' feet on the iron stairs was drowned out by the sounds of imminent destruction. I groaned with pleasure as her hands settled low on my back. Kristen groaned loudly, wishing for a quiet time to nap peacefully. As soon they reached the narthex, a small antechamber built off of the western gate's wall, Rachel twisted the handle to the room, and the door groaned open. She groaned, reaching out and fumbling for the snooze button on the clock. Elizabeth groaned and wrapped a shawl around her shoulders to cover her nightdress before plunging out her door with the empty pitcher in her hand. Instantly I groaned in agony and lifted my arm to block out the light. Wind shrieked through the rigging as the mast groaned under the strain of its huge triangular sail that drove the vessel before the wind, its rigging taught as harp strings. I groaned even more when I read the publicity bumf before the screening. Show More Sentences Many frontier inhabitants had perished, some cities had experienced food shortages, several colonies had been plunged into debt, and the citizenry groaned under heavy taxes. Eleanor groaned inwardly and swiveled in her chair to face Jacob. I groaned and threw my head to the side, regretting it immediately after. She groaned as that lick of flame deep inside of her flared up again. She tried to pull his shirt away from the wound but he groaned in pain. I groaned loudly in frustration and buried my head back under the pillow. The building groaned as a sound like thunder rumbled somewhere above him. She groaned inwardly and put her hand on her head in despair. I groaned out loud again, kicking against the floor with my good leg. She groaned, grimaced, and grabbed her left thigh, which had been wrapped, rewrapped, and re-re-wrapped in an Ace bandage. The mainmast groaned slightly under the strain of the wind-filled sails. The class' ears perked up, but Ella groaned inwardly, now Katrina would say that they were going to do a project of some sort, either requiring a group or worse a partner. I grumbled and groaned all the way to the door, then opened it. The door creaked and groaned in protest as she slowly pushed it open. The healthcare system groaned and creaked under the rising strain. Hearing someone shout her name, she groaned inwardly and turned. She groaned, arching back suddenly as pain seared through her side. The battering ram crashed rhythmically against the doors, and as the pins slid out one by one, the doors weakened and groaned in their hinged sockets. She groaned and rolled over, surprised at the surface's soft, cushiness. There were wounded who groaned in their sleep or called out, and there was the soft, steady hum of conversation among the wounded who could not sleep. Show More Sentences Natasha groaned to herself as she tossed and turned on her bed. In the run-up to Tuesday, the national media groaned with opinion columns expressing our love-hate relationship with voting. I groaned to my brother while clapping a hand to my forehead. She groaned as she looked for her hair brush in the clutter on her floor. James groaned from the ground and Andy dropped to her knees to help him. He groaned and repeated what he'd said, carefully enunciating every word. My car groaned a little on the rough, rocky roads along the lake's edge. We all liked a bit of biffo and gunplay, so when the telecast was broken for a newsflash, everyone groaned. The crowd groaned when the muscled-up, raw-boned Paris boys stopped the Mites once more on fourth down, just inches from the goal. He groaned loud with his mouth open. Then he wet himself. And then he rolled over on to his puku. The fog horns groaned and groaned again, and siren whistled and wrawled. Examples from Classical Literature The boh stood it as long as he could, and then groaned, and we saw what was going on. But rinzai groaned and cried out, To think that such a blind donkey should undertake to hand on my teaching! With a rough shake of his head, Phillip groaned and unwound himself out of a tangle of bedclothing. The doctor always groaned when he got the first glimpse of housecleaning, and gave a sigh of relief when it was over. If I had been weak, I should have groaned aloud in the agony of renunciation. Spillane groaned, and fiercely drove his clenched fist into the palm of the other hand. And outside the winch groaned and squeaked, down below the pump thumped and bucketed. Who has not groaned over the follies and idiocies that cling to us like the doggerel verses that hang about our memories? The hold steamed like an oven, stank most offensively, and groaned with anguish. Diomede obeyed, and the beechen axle groaned beneath the weight of the hero and the goddess. The Indian peasants groaned under the burden of taxes imposed to subsidise a horde of functionaries. On entering Smithfield, he jocosely said, that the place had long groaned for him. As she swung with the smooth undulations, blocks clattered, booms groaned, and the water in her bilges swirled noisily to and fro. But indistinct as things were, the poignancy of it went through him, and he groaned. While Margaret groaned in bitterness, she heard a knock at the street door. This lamentation caused Joshua to unswathe the bandage about his eyes and he groaned louder and longer. The gale howled round the walls with increasing fury, the taiga groaned more and more sadly. A man in the stern of the dinghy groaned, and slumped down into the bottom. Possibly, creation that groaned in her travail may rejoice that a man-child has been born. When it misled him, the rasping rock groaned out, scarring the submarine's smooth skin. Show More Sentences Kirkwood groaned with despair of his inability to fathom the abyss of his self-contempt. The violin fairly sobbed and groaned and wailed, as if the spirit of unconsolable grief were tugging heavily at the strings. Blaine groaned as his friend called for the equivalent of a milligram of radium. When she heard that the uncoupling of the parlour car had caused a delay, she groaned. The dumpster blocking their doorway groaned, and then it actually slid a few inches. Jack groaned and Rosemary, patiently holding a bleary-eyed cat for Sarah, looked at him anxiously. And he moped and groaned about, hoping for the best, but fearing the worst. It shrieked and howled about the eaves and the old house squeaked and groaned. Endicott groaned aloud, and the next moment a hand was placed on his shoulder. He groaned aloud unconsciously and started with affright at the sound of his own voice. Then Holly Cross decided to try for a field goal, but the wind carried it to one side, and his mates groaned. If he heard a sigh from the dairy loft, he sat down against the gable and groaned. So we sat down under the rocks and groaned, and for one I wished heartily that we had never started on this fool's errand. The pianist groaned as the slave plucked at his arms and held them aloft. A wood pigeon cooed tranquilly in the cedar, and Lady Louisa groaned. The woman, cowering against the door, covered her ears, and groaned. She groaned her admiration so audibly, that they all turned round. Billy moaned and groaned in the abjectness of humility and surrender, and let her have her way. John Brooke', whereat she groaned tragically and cast it into the fire, feeling that Laurie's prank had hastened the evil day for her. The bell rung, the steamer whizzed, the engine groaned and coughed, and away swept the boat down the river. Show More Sentences Bradbury groaned once in a while, and Mrs. Bassett got nervous. The carthaginian groaned, and his hold relaxed for a moment. The great bow creaked and groaned and the cord vibrated with the tension. Ishie groaned, depressed the cutoff switch and turned to Mike. Mr Pickering replaced the ring in his pocket, and, burying his head in his hands, groaned in bitterness of spirit. Miss Dyer groaned, and drew an uncertain hand across her forehead. Ewan of Brigglands again shrugged and groaned, but remained silent. Danvers groaned, holding him close as he looked into the glazing eyes. Some said one thing, some another, and some only groaned and hissed. Cant and vice and sniffle have groaned over these pages before. As Ashton lay back on the rock he squirmed from side to side and groaned. As he did so, he groaned heavily, and incontinently fainted. The contest continued, the combatants clinched each other, and panted and groaned, and rolled among the rocks. Lansing groaned at hearing this, but Mrs. Pinney comforted him. The logs swayed and chafed and groaned as fresh consignments from up-stream battered the now weakening dam. Mr. Trelawney Hope dropped his head on his chest and groaned aloud. Like all old-fashioned country practitioners, Doctor Reefy pulled teeth, and the woman who waited held a handkerchief to her teeth and groaned. He could have groaned aloud at this miscarriage of all his fine plans. I could have groaned in my rage at such a misinterpretation. Chip, thinking of the morrow's drive, groaned in real anguish of spirit. Show More Sentences He started from his revery with a vehement gesture, and groaned audibly. Newman groaned at this miserable news, and at the necessity of deferring his journey to the Chateau de Fleurieres. Thus they gathered in a pell-mell of mad confusion, and the earth groaned under the tramp of men as the people sought their places. He groaned and moaned and thrashed around this way and that for a long time. But when Creon threw, Charmides cried out in sorrow, and Menon groaned. Tom groaned louder, and fancied that he began to feel pain in the toe. Evidently it proved a painful process, for he groaned very much over it, and I was convulsed with inward laughter as I watched him struggling with that stubbly beard. There was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution. Mulcahy groaned and buried his head in his arms till a stray shot spoke like a snipe immediately above his head, and a general heave and tremour rippled the line. The lashed wheel groaned and kicked softly, the riding-sail slatted a little in the shifts of the light wind, the windlass creaked, and the miserable procession continued. Owen groaned in spirit and prayed fervently to be delivered from him. Find more words! 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