Example Sentences

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Groaned Ethan: “The only thing that functioned properly on that mission was this team.”

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2018

Groaned the bobby-soxers’ golden calf: “Di’nt seem hard a’tall. Ah’m sure Ah passed!”

From Time • Mar. 24, 2015

Groaned Assistant Conductor Richard Burgin: "I give the time, but the musicians are not supposed to follow me."

From Time Magazine Archive

Groaned a passenger in the President's car when the ride was over: "That's the closest John McCormack has come to the White House yet."

From Time Magazine Archive

Into deep substance he reached, and lo Where ye were not, ye were; and so Out of useless nothing, ye Groaned and laughed and came to be.

From The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle