Example Sentences

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He could dance, he was a very nice pianist, he was good at sketches, he was the greatest moaner in the world on the golf course, and he was a unique friend to me.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2017

The raspy-voiced blues moaner has been in Hollywood’s crosshairs for more than a decade, with one project after another biting the dust.

From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2014

But then there’s the frontman, Samuel T. Herring, more a moaner than a singer, who never quite gets to the release on this album that, despite its adeptness, ultimately comes off as restrained.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2014

He was the secretly self-important moaner in all of us.

From The Guardian • Jan. 1, 2011

The moaner cocked eye and ear, and said, in her every-day voice, which, coming so suddenly, sounded very droll, "What is that, I wonder?"

From A Simpleton by Reade, Charles