Example Sentences

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It has groaned here and there, as anyone who has struggled through a glitchy video conference knows, but it has not failed.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2020

Both times I’ve seen the film, the audience has groaned audibly at that title card, as if they were hoping for some light-hearted moment of reprieve to make everything a little better.

From The Verge • May 1, 2018

The Top 14 has groaned beneath the weight of ferocious scrummaging and seems proud that tacklers still rule – how good was Ibrahim Diarra against Northampton on Friday?

From The Guardian • Oct. 9, 2010

He has," groaned Blaize; "but he has done me no good—none whatever.

From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison

But it has groaned and looked gloomy, and asked mute questions with its eyes.

From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 by Various