How To Use Moan In A Sentence
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A lot of people moaned about the parking problems.
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A leisurely breakfast - even the motel manager was moaning about the way the Italians "hogged" the muffins this morning and drank cups of milk instead of putting it on their bran flakes!
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It was a simple rectangle of crudely mounded basalt rocks, a distinctive arrangement reminiscent of the way Samoans and other Polynesians marked their dead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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I kela manawa a Laieikawai me Halaaniani e heenalu ana mai ka moana mai, ua uhiia ko Waka mana e ka mana nui o Malio, a nolaila, ua ike ole o
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai
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they moaned in despair and dismay
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By her own instruction she moaned and whined a lot.
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As he fell and rolled on the ground he moaned and groaned.
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I sucked and gargled and gulped my man down until his toes opened and closed and he started grabbing and clutching the sheets, moaning out my name.
Deep Throat Diva
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Don't sit there moaning and complaining about all the work you've got to do.
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It's never too late to add your twopence to the moan-fest Melba.
The post in which I whine about the weather
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Wondering how the wasted Stevenson could work so tirelessly, La Farge decided he must be an aitu, a Samoan devil spirit not bound by the laws of the flesh.
The Five of Hearts
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Then a hush fell upon the fisherfolk, and only was heard the moan of the off-shore wind and the cries of the gulls flying low in the air.
Nam-Bok, the Unveracious
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He took Gonzo's instrument in both hands and blew it gently, resulting in a low moan.
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He dived triumphantly over and a fabulous farewell party for the Samoan seemed likely.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the shareholder meeting to approve the deal, they were bemoaning the loss of their 10% discount card.
Times, Sunday Times
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In one isolated village the people weep and wail, bemoaning their plight.
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Another bemoaned the lack of crèche facilities for dogs at the surgery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wilco, you are bemoaning the response to Blair… I interpret the show me the links the same as I interpret the Show me the links when a right winger posts some far out “factoidal” information here.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 16, 2007
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It pisses me off when they start moaning about going to war.
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Dreadful!" moaned Sister Ann. "Adnah goes about sighing all the day, and looks over-long in the mirror, and takes unseemly pains with her dressing, and does up her hair with flowers, and has feverishly pink cheeks, and likes to sit in a corner and brood, and takes long walks by herself, and especially, _especially_, seems fond of moonlight!
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.)
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Next you'll come over all pommy and start moaning about the infernal heat.
Ms R has lost her bikini
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I'm a real intellectual-type guy, Tracy," James joked. "Oh, give me a break," Tracy moaned.
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The traditional archery crowd moaned about how compounds would ruin bowhunting and that they should be used in a separate season, yet look how much more popular bowhunting is now because of the compound bow.
NRA Pushes PA Crossbows
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Naturally I had a few moans via videoscreen from the Troi Borg Queen, saying I am a disgrace to the Borg race.
Archive 2009-12-01
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Stop moaning, put on a jumper and hike through the drizzle to the snug in the pub.
Times, Sunday Times
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Citing a "smarmy" letter that Washington wrote in 1757, bemoaning his lot to the commander in chief, Lord Loudoun, Mr. Clary highlights some especially outspoken, self-pitying and "whining" comments.
War in the Wilderness
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Many parents moan about their offspring rising at the crack of dawn.
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For years people have bemoaned the emergence of shareholders as the owners of football clubs.
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And then halfway through the tune, for the bridge, we'd burst into a whale solo, a poor imitation of whale clicks and moans and calls.
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We talked about school, friends, family and browsed among all these various topics, usually complaining or moaning about them in some way.
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Tom, the poor fellow with the broken leg, was bearing up bravely, and only bemoaned the fact that, if there should be any necessity for the launching of the surfboat he could not do his duty.
Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast
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The bathroom door moaned slightly as she opened it just enough to allow herself through.
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He bemoans the loss of hard news in colour supplements to the worlds of advertising and fashion.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was the only place that she would spend the night without moaning and whining for her absent mistress.
Times, Sunday Times
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Iloko o keia manawa ona o ke Alii, alaila, ua nalo ole ka olelopaa ana i olelo ai i kona mau hoewaa ma ka moana, aole nae i loheia ma o kana poe
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai
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You can hear him drawing breath - tiny gasps during "Bloom," big gulpy lungfuls during "Morning Mr. Magpie" - but he exhales the same as ever: in a mumbly, monochromatic moan where the vowels are dramatic and the consonants are tough to make out.
Album review: Radiohead, "The King of Limbs"
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My force was standing knee-deep in mutilated bodies, surrounded by the guttural moans of dying people, looking into the eyes of children bleeding to death with their wounds burning in the sun and being invaded by maggots and flies," he later wrote.
Bystanders to Genocide
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She does not moan at the fact that you give her a 10 leva bill for a 50 stotinki paper.
Archive 2008-03-09
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Pela i hoao liilii ai na hoailona iloko o na la elima, a i ke ono o ka la, kui ka hekili, ua ka ua, kaikoo ka moana, waikahe ka aina, olapa ka uwila, uhi ka noe, pio ke anuenue, ku ka punohu i ka moana.
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai
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As the cripple sat looking over the solemn, moaning ocean, awed by its brooding gloom, did he catch in the silvery starlight a second glimpse of the rose-colored veils, and snowy vittae, and purple - edged robes of the Parcae, spinning and singing as they followed the ship across the sobbing sea?
St. Elmo
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What we found in making these selections, is that it is all too easy to moan about the decline and fall of popular culture.
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The disembodied voices were most striking - patients' miserable repeated calls for help, muted protests, inarticulate moans, and whimpers.
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No trees, no bluffs, no cabins, no telegraph poles, nothin '," moaned Red Bill; "nothin 'respectable enough nor big enough to swing the toes of a five-foot man clear o' the ground.
JAN, THE UNREPENTANT
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You could hear the moans and cries and smell the stench from well outside the tents.
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They bemoaned their domestic trials and, like young bachelors in love, sought to divine the whims of the women in their lives.
American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
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He never once complained or bemoaned the cruel hand life dealt him.
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Over the same period other publishers produced a further 100 items, including the only publications in Pukapukan (from Mataaliki Press) and the Pasifika Press series of dictionaries and/or language course books in Samoan, Cook Islands Mäori and Tongan.
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand
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For a minute she was angry - to weep and wail and moan at a time like this, when the true victims needed to live on borrowed strength for a while.
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Then there was a sort of sighing moan from the crowd on the cliff, who had been there all night for the French to land, and then Lord Arden's voice –
The House of Arden
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While the appearance and garb of Samoan women are subject to a range of cultural restrictions, full-body tattoos are common on Samoan men.
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The prisoner moaned a prayer for help.
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While writing my dissertation I often bemoaned the fact that I had to choose the pithiest of supporting or illustrating quotations, when I really wanted to share entire documents with other scholars and especially with students.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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Singers and non-singers alike, including shouters, groaners, moaners and squealers, can all join in.
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They need to be controlled, irrespective of the moans and groans from those motorists who want to drive where they want at the speed they want.
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When they came here they were all moaning and groaning at what we were doing.
The Sun
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I am tired of my husband moaning that every bed he sleeps in is too small.
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She moaned with pleasure she felt so resigned to him.
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The sick girl moaned a while, and then fell asleep.
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REFERENCES: un rouspéteur (une rouspéteuse) = moaner; le devoir (m) = homework; le souci (m) = worry
Words in a French Life
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This is not a moan or a gripe but something that's been puzzling me of late.
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To the amateur psephologist who is bemoaning Hillary's real electoral advantage: 56% of W. Virginian's are Democrats.
Why West Virginians turned out for Clinton
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Letter after letter either reflected on the wonderful time they had Just had together or bemoaned the fact that it was days before they were together again.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everybody says he is grumpy but he moans in the right way.
The Sun
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Hark ye, Covenant," she went on, "whan his sowl he selled him, the deevil telled him, 'at never mair sud he turn a hair at cry or moanin' in highway or loanin ', for greitin' or sweirin 'or grane o' despair.
Warlock o' Glenwarlock
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Jenson bemoans the loss of moral demands of a ‘highly opinionated God’ and the anomalous quandary of having to catechize the baptized in a post-Christian world.
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The moan of the didgeridoo was a pounding in his temples.
Impossible Places
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We rely on the MoT tester to tell us when the tread is low and then moan about the cost of replacements.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was on the back, the pain so fierce that she moaned.
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Although the trust concedes that the spread of flush lavatories is an advance it bemoans the fact that only 40 per cent are dual flush.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Yes, It is very indeed sad for people in Samoan really so awful struck earthquake/Tsunami … ..
Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 09/29/09
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The giant waves followed a massive earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, that struck about 120 miles off the Samoan coast at 6:48 a.m. local time Tuesday.
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She moans a lot about her boyfriend.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their fans have larger concerns, bemoaning the contrast with the reign of Roy Hodgson when Fulham, for instance, eliminated Juventus on the way to the 2010 Europa League final.
Manchester City's Roberto Mancini talks up dangers but Fulham pose few
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A wasted baby, apparently the youngest child, moaned in a corner of the room.
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She wrapped her fingers hard around her sister's thin wrists so that Talitha's sleepy moaning turned into a frightened whimpering.
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P.M. to my Samoan lesson from Whitmee — I think I shall learn from him, he does not fool me with cockshot rules that are demolished next day, but professes ignorance like a man; the truth is, the grammar has still to be expiscated — dined with
Vailima Letters
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He was the secretly self-important moaner in all of us.
Book club, week three: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
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Moans and groans from the wounded reached his ears and filled him with the deepest sorrow.
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When the draw was made it was met by a few moans and groans from the lads.
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He'd moan the Orient always got the wrong brother.
The Sun
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Constantly bemoaning his lot, he spouts an endless supply of cruel put-downs, although few of them have much effect.
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We had a good moan about the weather.
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And you dare not write off people who pen moaning letters to parish newsletters or local papers as cantankerous curmudgeons.
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Then the Greeks they groaned and quivered, And they knelt, and moaned, and shivered, As the plunging waters met them, And splashed and overset them; And they call in their emergence Upon countless saints and virgins; And their marrowbones are bended, And they think the world is ended.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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All this time, Brooks moans and whines, but he is inspired without hardly realizing it.
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As we concrete our cites and place drains to deliver the water straight into our rivers then Britain will continue to be flooded and endless moans and groans will do nothing about it.
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She'd trapped a mouse behind it and was moaning in frustration at not being able to go in for the kill.
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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.
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A far cry from Keijo's spooky, noise-laden pastiches or Islaja's feral moan, Growing Green is subtly pastoral.
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The activists could hear women moaning and crying out in pain.
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So isn't it odd that the aggrieved parties always run to the papers for their moan rather than the game's governing body?
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Slawomir Oder, the church official who has advanced the case for the late pope's sainthood, bemoans the attention the royal wedding is getting.
Pope Vies With Prince for Public Eye
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A howling moan, like storm winds rattling windows, came from the charging creatures.
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Within the political class, it is standard fare to bemoan lack of engagement among the unenlightened masses.
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She responded to the long, artful caress with a low, murmurous moan.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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The low moan of a foghorn across miles of greyness, the slap of waves breaking against a gently rocking hull in the dark, the slow creak of rusting quayside machinery in the wind beckon through the haar.
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E Moanalihaikawaokele, o kuu kapa i haumia, homai, e lawe ae au e hoomaemae i ka wai.
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai
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When they walked past one particular chamber, Dubya asked the debbil about the moans.
Think Progress » SC Lt. Gov. compares people getting gov’t help to ‘stray animals’ who ‘breed’ because they don’t know better.
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In Samoan words all syllables are given equal timing with a slight accent placed on the penultimate syllable.
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Some could bemoan the lack of clear psychological motivation outside of financial gain as keeping them at an emotional distance, yet it's this lack of forethought and consideration that has brought Bruno to this place.
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In the past, a soldier's sense of being part of a broader purpose suppressed moans about kit.
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The Samoan team lodged a formal protest after the referee sent off the wrong player.
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He has compared a prominent opponent of the switch to a local 'avaava' fish -- a sea creature that swims in shallow waters and eats garbage, an insult in Samoan culture.
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In the distances he could hear moaning and wailing.
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One may sit at the cave's mouth, and moan it many times as the light goeth out of the sky.
THE FIRST POET
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Why she thinks that anyone cares about her weight, or why she thinks it's necessary to go to a major magazine and bitch and moan is beyond me.
Carnie(vore) Wilson Chews The Fat About Weight Gain
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And I myself took a clean tashtook from my carman to wrap round poor old dying Dim's rooker, howling and moaning as he was, and the krovvy stopped like I said it would, O my brothers.
Where's the show?
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THE REMNANTS OF THE skybridge swayed in the breeze, screeching where the metal rubbed against the side of the Moana tower of the Grand Hawaiian.
Rogue Wave
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Every year it surpasses itself with kitschness and when you see it listed on the television schedule, eyes invariably roll to heaven accompanied by moans and groans of distaste.
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Sitting at home moaning is no good.
The Sun
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Is he out gathering kai moana for a hakari?
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Emily didn't move, she was physically exhausted; she couldn't even moan in her sleep at being disturbed.
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Perhaps she falls (never in a way to injure herself) to the floor and apparently loses consciousness, closes her eyes, rolls her head from side to side, moans, clenches her fists, lifts her body from the floor so that it rests on head and heels (opisthotonic hysteria), shrieks now and then and altogether presents a terrifying spectacle.
The Foundations of Personality
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The injured man was lying on the ground,[Sentencedict] moaning.
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Long moans, clicks of his tongue, and the sucking of his teeth were clearly heard.
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If we are lucky some of them may return for an informal visit, but no thanks to those mentioned above or all the other pessimistic moaners who tried to rubbish the event.
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BISHO (ECN Thursday 28 August 1997) - The imminent R2-million pay rise for Bisho MPLs and MECs, who daily bemoan the tight provincial budget and face financial crises in most departments, has got the politicians to stop talking for once.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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He would not creep about the country with moaning voice and melancholy eyes, with draggled dress and outward signs of wretchedness.
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She moaned on the floor, 'I must reach the door, Or I'll be a fricasseed goner.'
A Beastly Pursuit, in Rhyme
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Ex-World Bank chief Stiglitz bemoans 'anaemic' recovery by BLOOMBERG
TODAYonline
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Contemporary chroniclers based in England had a habit of bemoaning the cost and absence of results of such campaigns.
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Azee cabbed it home, and DH and I went back to the apartment to lie around and moan, and not in a sexy way, either.
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Purists may bemoan the use of an actual producer and recording studio, and sure, the record is a tad sheeny.
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If the contentants are well fed, the Samoan smoothy competitions are less likely to be finished.
Jeff Probst blogs 'Survivor: Samoa': episode #6 | EW.com
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Although the trust concedes that the spread of flush lavatories is an advance it bemoans the fact that only 40 per cent are dual flush.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Samoan was the most interesting, taking his palagi woman to native places where no one else was Caucasian, and doing physical things like sailing and swimming.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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The mayor of Shenzhen bemoaned thethe southern boom town was plagued with traffic jams and pollution.
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A low moan of despair escaped her as she realized what had gone wrong.
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The washing machine wasn't draining, and, in desperation I lay my head down on the dasher inside what the kids call the 'chugger' to bemoan my fate before looking for a free washer on craigslist when I noticed a bit of metal poking down.
Duct Tape
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Instead of bemoaning the losses, this suburban church has decided to be positive about the people it has sent elsewhere in the Kingdom.
Christianity Today
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In the midst is a well where women in flowing drapery, with tall jars, draw water as if posing for Bible illustrations; and a camel market in which fifty or more of the brown, ungainly beasts have been relieved of their burdens and lain down for the night – doubled into uncomfortable heaps and bubbling and moaning with querulous discontent.
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
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Common Samoan is the Samoan language of commerce and normal village interactions, while Respect Samoan includes honorific terms used for others of equal or greater rank.
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Usually, opposition leaders bemoan the fact that they can only speak but have no power to act.
Times, Sunday Times
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She moaned as another sharp pain ripped through her abdomen.
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Oahu nei, a mai anei aku a like a like o ka moana o Oahu nei, a me
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai
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One crude stretcher stood next to the other," he wrote, "and all were occupied by moaning, sweating, deathly pale men, who were gasping for breath in the thick atmosphere of excrement and iodoform.
'Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization'
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Our critic bemoans the lack of academic judgement on matters of expensive smells.
The Times Literary Supplement
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About two hours before daybreak you will hear the red monkey moaning as though in deep distress; the houtou, a solitary bird, and only found in the thickest recesses of the forest, distinctly articulates "houtou, houtou," in a low and plaintive tone an hour before sunrise; the maam whistles about the same hour; the hannaquoi, pataca and maroudi announce his near approach to the eastern horizon, and the parrots and paroquets confirm his arrival there.
Wanderings in South America
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We had a good moan at the supplier and the problem seems to have gone away ... now that's what you call sophisticated quality control Interested in this topic?
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He had been the one she complained and moaned to about her parents.
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It duz sownd beli kyootniss teh littlol moany groany purr teh kitteh iz maikin, but ai hazza feelin kitteh iz feelin a bit powzesif uf teh gushifydz.
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Another bemoaned the lack of crèche facilities for dogs at the surgery.
Times, Sunday Times
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A low moan of despair escaped her as she realized what had gone wrong.
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There were the obligatory moans and groans from the entire class.
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I mai nae o Moanalihaikawaokele, "Aole e aeia kou kaikaina o noho pu me kakou, no ka mea, ua haumia oia ia Kaonohiokala; aka, ina he manao kou i ko kaikaina, alaila, e hoi oe a e pani ma ka hakahaka o
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai
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He typified the old-fashioned values of rugby that we all bemoan are going.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact, I'd spent the afternoon being moaned at by a fat man in epaulettes because my portrait of his wife was far too realistic as regarded her unfortunately equine features.
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And if he feels annoyance at another game on the bench, he will not moan about it to them.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were plenty of herberts moaning about Annika Sorenstam.
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She moaned and her body stretched, her lower limbs pressing tight against him, his thigh filling her inner thighs.
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He bemoaned the lack of quality at his disposal in recent weeks after a run of four games without a win.
The Sun
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Tony moaned in his sleep and then turned over on his side.
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‘It's the biggest ballpark in baseball right now,’ Gonzalez moaned.
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Everything that you are moaning about is within your control.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm bemused by the continual croaking and moaning that goes on about budgets.
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No more moaning about my lot in life.
The Sun
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Signs to look out for in babies or infants include a high-pitched moaning or whimpering cry, a blank, staring expression and pale, blotchy complexion.
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I have had enough of the moaners who complain about the skateboard park but offer nothing as an alternative.
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Usually, opposition leaders bemoan the fact that they can only speak but have no power to act.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dogs bark, ducks quack and banks moan about regulation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The storm is sweeping past, already the rain diminishes, the lightning pales, the thunder retreats till leagues and leagues away we hear it "moaning and calling out of other lands.
An Island Garden
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Even as he spoke, the ship heeled over in the rising wind, and he moaned.
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In such sullen darkness, even a white person might half-hear duppies moaning in the unseen reeds.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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Be "entranced" by this moaning indie-bollocks if you will, but I for one couldn't give a toss about this or any other Saddle Creek band.
Drowned In Sound // Feed
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Although the trust concedes that the spread of flush lavatories is an advance it bemoans the fact that only 40 per cent are dual flush.
Times, Sunday Times
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In his inaugural address, Obama appealed for "a new era of responsibility," bemoaned "greed and irresponsibility" and "failure to make hard choices.
LifeNews.com Pro-Life Headlines
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They're all getting drunk in a bar somewhere, moaning about how slack Cape Town business people are.
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The moment he's sitting in his smalls centre stage, rocking backwards and forwards, moaning to himself, a suggestion is made that perhaps it's time to get out of Dodge.
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When a Poor-spirited Creature that died at the same time for his Crimes bemoaned himself unmanfully, he rebuked him with this Question, Is it no Consolation to such a Man as thou art to die with Phocion?
Spectator, August 2, 1711
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She was still conscious and was moaning loudly with pain.
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She's always moaning about not being treated equally.
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An overexcitable fantasist or a moaning pessimist?
Times, Sunday Times
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The Towie reject spends her days moaning about people writing about her weight yet writes a weekly trashy magazine column about... her weight.
The Sun
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OMFG omg just stop moaning! he wont die, well he will but then Dean would make a deal and bring him back ... and the colt comes from the demon itself, well i dont want to spoil the episode for ya xD kirsty**
TheTVaddict First Look: SUPERNATURAL Season Finale Pics | the TV addict
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The Central meanwhile were left to bemoan their lost opportunity to strike out.
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His wife took no notice of his cries and groans, for it was quite as agreeable to her to be the only speaker, and have her moaning husband a kind of assenting chorus.
Old Fritz and the New Era
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But to call it a bias is a knee-jerk reaction that reeks of the lack of thoughtfulness that you yourself bemoan.
Vote now! Wine Person of the Decade [the Naughties] | Dr Vino's wine blog
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A mother bemoaned the layoff of the untenured special ed teacher who had taught her autistic child.
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Update: that was just me moaning because my bank account was in a sorry state.
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(I'll leave aside Lithwick's ongoing effort, which Jonathan Adler has aptly remarked on before, to reposition herself from her previous role as a perpetrator of the "vicious slash-and-burn character attack" to her new role as a hypersensitive bemoaner of any criticism of nominees.)
Bench Memos
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Evidently too stupid to realise that her relentless moaning wasn't coming across very well on the telly, Natalie decided against keeping her gob shut and instead elected to continue to behave like a spoilt child.
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The woman presently occupying his thoughts suddenly let out a little moan and sat up.
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Scots may want to come over all Runrig bestriding mighty crags, but they are really Arab Straps, moaning about damp and impotence in provincial housing schemes.
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Alternatively, try varying the carbs rather than moaning about a suspect wheat allergy.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was deep and sounded more like a growl than a moan.
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She could hear every halting breath, every tear drip off his chin, and every soft moan a painful lament.
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B'fol's dainty green beauty moaned and tossed her head, unable to bend one wing that had been threaded to bare cartilage.
DragonFlight
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Dogs bark, ducks quack and banks moan about regulation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sometimes her moans are loud enough to be heard three courts away.
Times, Sunday Times
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So, Eskimoan languages are really extraordinary in their productive word-building capability, for any root you might pick.
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Twitter users hit out at him yesterday after he moaned about noisy infants on planes.
The Sun
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Melinda, her reliable and religious baby-sitter, of the mousy brown hair and conservative clothing, now of the flower-like lily limbs and void of clothing of any kind, writhing religiously on their beige living-room couch like an octopus, being devoured by her shirtless husband, their faces lifting and meeting, mouths plastering and coming apart, gasps and moans inaudible above the high-powered shouting of the rock stars on the stereo.
For the Sake of the Boy
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Yet again you moaned about how you hate acting, hate film-making and hate all the beastly attention.
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Faint music came from another house beyond the trees; a carriage clopped past the distant gates; overhead a nightbird moaned dolefully; I could hear my own knees creaking as I crouched there, scratching the newly-healed bullet-wound in my backside and wondering what the deuce was wrong.
Isabelle
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They left me on the floor moaning from the pain in my arm.
Times, Sunday Times
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The stars were moaning about their props with just two hours to go.
The Sun
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Car owners will moan, but such is the attachment to our vehicles we will probably stump up the extra amount.
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Yet more moaning and sniping about people not being interesting or interested in him.
The Sun
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But in the second stanza, descriptive of the self (and where the first-person pronoun is first-introduced), these harmonies dissolve, and the poem becomes a syncopated lament, an untimely moan:
The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth
