Example Sentences

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In six months U. S. railroads and trucks will be groaning under the first big loads of defense materiel, and Burlington President Ralph Budd's Transportation Division will have to keep it moving.

From Time Magazine Archive

Talk's first four issues will be groaning with 442 pages of advertising from blue-chip sponsors such as General Motors, Evian and Ralph Lauren.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Clemency dear, do you suppose our Barnabas fellow will be groaning over his 'loneliness'—to-morrow, say?"

From The Amateur Gentleman by Farnol, Jeffery

In a month you will be groaning, wandering about like a ghost, playing your part in a drama, or possibly in a tragedy, and ending, as all your like do, with some piece of folly.

From The Precipice by Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich