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Sentence Examples The world is groaning to a halt, and yet the ants continue their relentless labour under sunny skies. Once the initial elation of a happy event dies down, we quickly revert to type, moaning and groaning. Adding to the pressure on the company, investors are groaning about measly profit margins the company has reported. She had spent over an hour moaning and groaning about how stuffed a teenager's life was. He had a very well paid and exclusive job millions of people would kill for and was still moaning and groaning about Matt. If it had happened to me, I think I would have needed at least a week off work and there would have been plenty of moaning and groaning. My mom was walking around the kitchen, groaning and complaining about the weather when I made my way downstairs. The impressive tent also housed the long tables groaning from the weight of delicious French produce on display. As autumn approaches, vegetable gardens throughout the state are groaning with abundant supplies of zucchini and fresh corn. I remember the Sunday afternoon teas at my grandparents' house as a child, the table groaning with various cakes and biscuits. These collective venues host many of the events at this year's 35th Perth Festival, in a programme groaning with international stars and talent. We had a trestle table positively groaning with gifts to unload, so it wasn't a quick process. There you will find whole websites, huge areas of cyberspace groaning with appalling games. For a moment we gazed like children at the shelves groaning with boxes of chocolate, then we quickly, efficiently, and joyously filled our boots. With so many targets presenting themselves and his coffers groaning with cash, he will be spoilt for choice on Wednesday. Most people seem to be groaning under the load of spam they get these days. Both countries have generous social security arrangements and both economies are groaning under the weight of all of this. Much of that money was not used usefully and with almost no industrial base the country is groaning under its debt burden. David Mackenzie said the courts were groaning under the strain of dealing with hundreds of minor offences over the past fortnight. As people started to gradually file in, I looked around the room, groaning inwardly at the sight of Blaise and his group. Show More Sentences This is something that no one has ever explained to the groaning taxpayers! Jess was quite smug that she didn't have to make stupid groaning noises with the rest of us. Only last night I arrived home to be met by a moaning groaning husband, weaving his way slowly around the house like a wounded grizzly bear. The groaning fans were then treated to an action replay in the 34th minute. I pushed the throttle forward simultaneously releasing the groaning brakes. Out over the flat, white wastes of fen and the wind-bent, groaning poplar trees went the music of the bells. The shrill horns and groaning engines assume almost supernatural qualities. Realising her mistake the unfortunate washerwoman employed the services of the porter to retrieve her clothes from the groaning machine. Over the course of 65 miles, only two groaning trucks and an occasional courageous car pass us. The boy looks over the valley, across the playing field where he and his brother pushed each other on the rusted, groaning merry go round. With a grinding, groaning sound, the wrecked car upended and slid into the river. I can't help noticing a small, white bowl positioned beneath the groaning contraption. Men stood one each corner, leaning on bamboo poles, which supported the workings of the groaning engine. Of all the offerings on the groaning vegetable stalls, sweetcorn will be the first into the pot. Twelve months on they have acquired a groaning trophy cabinet and a growing American fan base. He might rejoice in his groaning store cupboards, but the labour is out of his hands. The caterers served scrumptious crab cakes, grilled lamb chops, scallops, sushi and a groaning board of desserts. We piled in and carried off groaning bags of books as one last memento of a great Glasgow institution. The ancient pubs are filled to the groaning rafters with imbibing undergraduates. I expected to drag you, moaning, groaning and grousing, out of your warm bed. Show More Sentences After that, my stomach was grumbling and everyone else was groaning about their hunger. I sit here, my whole body aching and groaning, as if I've been bashed and left in a gutter by the side of the road. I had to flatten myself against the wall to allow fully-laden groaning shopping trolleys, with well-fed pushers, make their way for the car park. David stood up straight, groaning for a moment at the strain put on his calf muscles. The old man wheezed and gasped terribly, groaning out a little as the pain of his performance finally caught up with him. The door holds fast for just a moment before giving, groaning its displeasure at the shabby treatment it has recently received. With one last punch to Dade's stomach, Damian rightened himself up and left Dade groaning in the sand. Most had died along the way, but one young lad, his arm and leg completely shattered by shrapnel, was conscious and groaning. For decades, I've been groaning about the outdated Beatle haircuts worn by aging Baby Boomers. If you are already groaning with boredom at the mere hint of another mention of Big Brother, I'm sorry about that. Our table was groaning with plates of meze and dressed with chilled bottles of Villa Doluca. Shrugging, he found more food then bent to the task of bailing out the boat, groaning as he began. Are not the children now and the generations to come so much more important than moaning and groaning about change? I would suggest that there is more moaning and groaning than booing, and this is not just in the stands. He had a very well paid, every varying and exclusive job millions of people would kill for and was still moaning and groaning about Matt. The large creatures were grunting and groaning, and their large, curved tusks flashed in the moonlight. Summer is the time when local fields are groaning with fresh strawberries and visitors can munch their way around the strawberry patches. He took Fernet's weapon sacks and the bag of ransom money and slung those on, too, groaning at the weight of them. As usual, the food mountain expressed itself in quivering, groaning, and loud slurps. The ship rocked violently, groaning and creaking with the weight and buffeting of the waves. Show More Sentences And in a mixed gym it isn't polite to mention you hate to hear men grunting, sweating and groaning next to you. Carl collided headlong with the first of them and he fell groaning and clutching his groin. Then my endorphin rush wore off and I hightailed it home, groaning in pain. Hans felt his head thrown forward, as his ears suffered the groaning of the hull, as the massive hulk of the ship came to one stop. For countless days we raged across those dark northern seas, the rigging groaning under sheets of ice. There, I sat and waited, the room gently spinning, my sinuses groaning, my throat complaining, my heart beating at mousepace. Most of the population seemed to be pottering around the streets and there were dozens of stalls groaning under the weight of roast pigs. He began moaning and groaning once he started to regain consciousness and become aware of the pain in his head. As the subject of my weblog was brought up in conversation, I found myself inwardly groaning. Every year, some 3,000 of these exorbitant powder-blue stacks come cracking and groaning down the Labrador Sea. The water disappeared with a mildly worrying groaning noise and the lights went out, leaving the non-windowed bathroom in total darkness. He becomes one with the groaning hordes held in misery below deck on the slave ships. Leaning over the groaning teen, Vincent's nimble fingers began to probe the wound as he yelled out instructions. At the middle, he froze too as the pillar gave a huge groaning noise and crumbled. He packed his things into his backpack and tested it on his shoulders, groaning slightly as he adjusted to the weight. He removed his boots and eased his burning feet into the cool water, groaning with pleasure as the water moved up over his ankles. I rubbed my head again, groaning miserably, and slowly followed her outside. Grumpy old codgers such as Will Self and Bob Geldof have been moaning and groaning on prime-time TV about what really gets their goat. We are not going to whinge about it, there's no good moaning or groaning about it, let's get on and get it over with. Andreas stared at the groaning figure of the drunken man on the sidewalk. Show More Sentences Frankie dialed the number, groaning when she heard the busy signal. It is about wanting to be the sort of person who has a cloakroom groaning with wellington boots and children's oilskins, even if you last went for a walk 10 years ago. He took her bag from her, groaning slightly under the weight. The local economy is groaning under the strain of this baby boom. If treatment is further delayed, the health service, already groaning under the additional burden Aids creates, will grow increasingly less able to contemplate introducing it. We chunter through each day, grumbling, griping and groaning. I have a strong feeling that there is going to be a lot more moaning and groaning by these other strikers this season and possibly the departure of one or two of them. A red rope separates about 30 of us from the groaning, pressing mass of humanity that's about to charge pell-mell into the freezing San Francisco Bay. On the inductivist's view the link between wincing and groaning, on the one hand, and the inner experience of pain, on the other, is a merely contingent one. Their wealth was gained through the exploitation of a groaning peasantry. There's still plenty of grunting and groaning, but it sounds less like a woolly mammoth and more like a woolly mammoth chasing and catching a gazelle. In the show, Sharp has Christopher rock back and forth, groaning, his hands over his ears. It relieved humanity of the heavy load under which it was groaning and broke the fetters unjust rulers and ignorant lawgivers had put around its feet. I can almost hear many a reverend pastor's groaning response. So we're home today, lying around in bed and groaning a lot. Served from early morning until 2pm, they consist of groaning sideboards piled with everything from freshly baked breads to cold meats and cheeses. Shaun's grief with his girlfriend and his mom is the focal crisis of his life until it gradually dawns on him that London is overrun with groaning, flesh-eating living dead. And before he went over to talk to them, he came over to my office, and he was moaning and groaning. The tiny waitress is back, peeping over two groaning plates. We cleaned Sainsbury's out of booze and party food, so when the guests started to arrive, they were greeted by a table groaning with nibbles and drinks. Show More Sentences It warns us in advance when starving, flyblown African children are about to be pictured in their death throes as we tuck into tea-time plates groaning with fresh food. In Premier Bookshop, the groaning shelves have their own tale to tell. I think they all had a bellyful of the rugby public's chiding and groaning at lack of skills and below par play that took us to rock bottom at the World Cup. There's a crash and a scream, and the groaning sound of a warship. Holding their hands high, groaning people were rushing to the river. The sound coming from the other end of the line was such a gargle of noise that she wasn't sure if Dominic was growling or groaning in exasperation. Bastian only sighed again as the taxi began to slow down and the driver's annoyed mutterings began to be heard over the groaning and death rattles of the engine. At the inn, over a breakfast table groaning with pecan granola, blueberry muffins, apple cakes and steaming coffee, my landlady confirms my suspicions. Jeremy followed, dropping onto the elevator as Andy sat down to slide his legs down through the open hatch, and the groaning sound became a sharp twang. Tables groaning with bargain-priced DVDs and VCDs are set up out front. Christmas cards often show tables groaning with such fare, along with the robins and snow, but increasingly we can see pohutakawa and pukeko alongside the traditional images. I sat in the passenger seat, groaning every time we went over a bump. He climbed out of the wagon gingerly, his muscles groaning in protest. With a grunting groaning sound the old jeep started up again, and they began the bumpy journey south to civilisation, leaving clouds of red dust to settle behind. He was groaning in agony from the gut shot, and it kept him from regaining his feet. They listened with audible outrage, sighing and groaning in disbelief. I watched per plunge directly into the groaning, writhing horde. The groaning of creation exposes the structural sin and injustices that eternalize death and destruction in our communities. And that was how long we stayed in the cabin, pressed together, pulling the future out of each other, sweating and groaning and making sure each of us remembered. The sky was gray and dead. Great! he thought. Another day stuck in this boarded-up rat hole! He slammed the door viciously, then winced, groaning, at the brain-stabbing noise. Examples from Classical Literature I'd rather see that, now, than old Groschen 's supper-table groaning with wurst again, and running a river of Rudesheimer! She rose groaning, and with her mouth full of dirt, but continued her run with unaccelerated speed. From the pit below came a rutilant groaning and sharp exclamations of pain and ecstasy. The Citizen Morot could not hear the jokes nor distinguish the cause of the groaning. And without a change of dogmata, what is there but the slavery of men groaning and pretending to obey? Aegina was groaning under her yoke, and threatened with total political extinction. However, I had no thought for any one but my patient, who was groaning most dreadfully. In the small infirmary, Karol lay groaning in a bunk, his arm bound in bandages, his head moving from side to side. This was followed by other sounds of beating and a continued groaning, in a voice which tung knew to be his fathers. The earnest expectation of a groaning and travailing creation does wait for the revealing of the sons of God. This became a common practice when the hand-loom workers were groaning under the pressure of competition from the power-loom. They represent the whole creation as groaning and travailing in pain, but that the creature also shall be delivered. Sighing and groaning, as if with great reluctance, the tugboat began again its toilful course up the stream. A touch of the bruised foot on the floor brought the mailman groaning to his chair again. The good swell is the creature towards which all nature has been groaning and travailing together until now. Think of them, the toilers, the oppressed, God's children, groaning under the iniquitous laws of generations of evil statesmanship. The autumn months, however, see guelder roses blooming, rowan and spindle trees groaning with berries and leaves on the acer trees turning red. She ate and drank eagerly, and sank back on her pillow again, clenching her hands and groaning. He saw the two whale-boats land on the beach, and the sick, on stretchers or pick-a-back, groaning and wailing, go by in lugubrious procession. Meg is always moaning and groaning because she isn't a sylph! Show More Sentences Some of the spectators invited attention to their wit by shouting and groaning and challenging the ghost to a footrace. He lay there groaning in the fierce clutches of rheumatic fever. The Achaeans were cut to pieces, and Achaia loaded with chains, under which it is groaning at this hour. Just to think of his using my cit suit, and his groaning for the supe. At every half-mile a groaning water-wheel lifted the soft water from the river to the crops by way of a mud-built aqueduct. The booms were tearing at the blocks, the rudder was banging to and fro, and the whole ship creaking, groaning, and jumping like a manufactory. It was a voice, groaning, yet it was not like a human voice. Whenever the turnkey was coming he was groaning and moaning on the bed. I have forgotten to eat my bread for the voice of my groaning. He was given a cup of wine and stood watching as the groaning and skirling gave way to a stately pavane. Somewhere in the Whispering Gallery, no doubt, Jesus was groaning about clearing the moneychangers from the temple. He staggers over to couch and sits upon it, groaning heavily. There are sophomoric similes in practically every paragraph and one finds oneself groaning as if in a real comedy show. Beating their wings, wailing and groaning, the two hideous things sparred for position. Accordingly, he visited the patient, which lay groaning in the stye. A respectable lady, built on the lines of a Pomeranian grenadier, burst into the dressing-room and dropped groaning into a vacant arm-chair. Just a year ago we were groaning over the dismal Christmas we expected to have. As she went grinding and groaning by, we perceived the secret of her moving impulse. Pennie groped about the school-room floor, groaning with vexation. Sometimes I think all this sighing, and groaning, and stirring among the dry bones foretells what she used to tell me was coming. Show More Sentences The light could not have been good, though if I brought my books to the little gable window that overlooked the groaning and whistling gristmill I could see well enough. The men, led by the groans of Tom, scrambled and crackled through stumps, logs and bushes, to where that hero lay groaning and swearing with alternate vehemence. After his brothers had thus successfully maimed and disfigured him for life, they left him groaning on the ground and continued their journey without him. I ran to and fro groaning till I came to the hut of one whom I knew. They were refined in the semidarkness, reading glasses perched on the end of his nose, a bedside cabinet groaning under the weight of books he knew he could learn from. When the boat, creaking, and groaning, and puffing, had loosed from the wharf, and was beginning slowly to strain herself along, the woman returned to her old seat. I remember well that the slaves, convinced of the precarious tenure on which they held their lives, passed whole days and nights in praying, crying, and groaning. There was a sideboard of mahogany, inlaid with ivory, and bearing enormous handles of glittering brass, and groaning under the piles of silver plate. The stench of bad beef was in his nostrils, while in his ears, to the accompaniment of creaking timbers and groaning bulkheads, echoed the loud mouth-noises of the eaters. Antilochus bent over him the while, weeping and holding both his hands as he lay groaning for he feared that he might plunge a knife into his own throat. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of groaning? Words that rhyme with groaning What is the plural of groaning? What is the adverb for groaning? What is the adjective for groaning? What is the noun for groaning? Translations for groaning Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words groaners groaner groaned groan gro grizzly groanings groans Groans groat Groat groats 8-letter Words Starting With g gr gro groa groan groani groanin