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verb

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Recent Examples of groan
Verb
An Associated Press reporter who witnessed the execution said that Mahdi cried out as the shots hit him and then groaned twice about 45 seconds after that. Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2025 There’s been a lot of groaning this March about the lack of upsets in the men’s NCAA basketball tournament. Sean Gregory, Time, 30 Mar. 2025 The audience groaned upon hearing about Jelly's bothersome habit. Marina Watts, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025 When the first two rounds of 10% tariffs hit, Zou Guoqing, a Chinese exporter, groaned but didn't find the barriers insurmountable. Arkansas Online, 14 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for groan
Recent Examples of Synonyms for groan
Noun
  • Augustina and Blessing are proof of that, milling outside the prison walls, caught between madcap laughter and wails of pain — the polarities of grief.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2025
  • War within a war Rosalinda Cabanillas lets out a guttural wail that echoes across the entire cemetery.
    Isobel Yeung, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • The eyes start rolling and the moans come out when dudes get super gooned.
    Mikelle Street, Them., 6 May 2025
  • The courtroom reverberated with the anguished moans and last breaths of Brianna Kupfer.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The user's husband initially dismissed the sound as a fox, but as the cries continued, curiosity took over.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 18 May 2025
  • The life of Pope Leo shows that one’s identity and loyalties are shaped by experience, and Leo’s experience is one with deep roots outside of the U.S., closeness to the cry of the poor, and the clear conviction that the best way to lead is through service rather than raw power and fear.
    Raúl E. Zegarra, Time, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • Studio Nicholas Venezia In Janáček’s Quartet No. 1, the Takács ratcheted up the genre’s conversational quality into high drama, widening the expressive gulf between the opening lamentation and the skittering response.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 2 May 2025
  • Biblical-style lamentations over Israel’s final corruption have been a staple of the state’s critics and die-hard anti-Zionists for 70 years.
    Martin Kramer, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2016
Noun
  • My own experience and reality invalidated and denied, which in her heart today would be a very painful lament.
    Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2025
  • This episode was just like that, a lot of quick dancing, jazz hands, and even a lament sung by Shauhin, just for the most boring and obvious thing to happen in the end.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • Within an outlying mining operation, a Mechanist mourning the murder of her husband is bestowed a strange pet as part of a bargaining chip from a dishonorable alien race.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 17 May 2025
  • The tradition of flying the American flag at half-staff symbolizes national mourning and respect for individuals who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to the country.
    Jenna deJong, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025

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“Groan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/groan. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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