How to Use groan in a Sentence

groan

verb

• She groaned when she saw the bill.
• The wounded man groaned in pain.
• The chair groaned under his weight.
• She groaned that she would have to start all over.
• He's always moaning and groaning about his salary.
• Merchants are groaning over slow holiday sales.
• The great wooden beams of the temple’s halls had flexed and groaned with the strain.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Oct. 2017
• The crowd groaned after the first three short shots went in the water.
  — Tod Leonard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Asked to compare the skill sets of the two players, Boudreau groaned.
  — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 14 Mar. 2017
• The page almost groans under the dead weight of that pun.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2019
• Winslow couldn’t help but groan when told Nurkic had let the bear out of the bag.
  — oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2022
• Instead the ball dribbled into the middle of the net, and the crowd groaned.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 9 June 2018
• No one likes to be booed, no one likes to be groaned at, no one likes to be laughed at.
  — Michael Schneider, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2019
• And with the top up, there’s the occasional creak and groan.
  — Steve Siler, Car and Driver, 16 Feb. 2018
• Turn a crank and the man groaned and waved one arm over his mouth while the animal growled.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
• And the girls were screeching, the teachers were groaning.
  — Ed Masley, azcentral, 12 Dec. 2019
• The ball ricocheted off the top bar and Viola groaned, along with the rest of the crowd.
  — Elena Weissmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 June 2018
• Beneath the shrine, men grinned and groaned and heaved; the gravel at their feet grew dark with sweat.
  — Neil Shea, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• The moon stared over the groaning planet and that pasture.
  — Peter Balakian, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• As members of the Suns’ training staff rushed to Canaan, the crowd groaned in horror.
  — Scott Bordow, azcentral, 28 Mar. 2018
• The crowd groaned as Springsteen, 73, lay on his back for a few seconds.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• When Rose moves away, Wilmot groans and bunches up her face.
  — Amanda Shapiro, Bon Appetit, 1 Mar. 2018
• The 52-year-old actor can be heard groaning in pain in the background.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
• While so much of Italy groans under the weight of mass tourism, in Molise a little of the spillover would go a long way.
  — Maria Russo, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2019
• Take Italy, where banks are still groaning under the weight of bad loans.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2019
• Afraid, Jonasson closed her eyes and heard Diesel groaning, per the suit.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2023
• Yet, the ball bounced off Burton’s hands and the crowd audibly groaned.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 22 Apr. 2023
• The bags groan with possessions: too many for the bags, not nearly enough for a life.
  — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2021
• Two cell phones, pages from a notebook and sneakers were strewn near the victim, a woman in her mid-forties, who was crumpled in the grass, groaning.
  — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
• Some donors groaned audibly during a speech delivered by the Teamsters president, one donor said.
  — Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024