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Example sentences for "moaned"

Lexicographically close words:
mnemonic; mnestra; moah; moan; moaning; moanings; moans; moar; moare
  1. When consciousness was restored the fury of the storm was passed, and Mrs. Belmont, weak and dispirited, moaned upon her bed until the sea-sick passengers landed safely at their destination.

  2. The winds moaned and the snow came and went; the "frost-king" fettered and unloosed; then the spring appeared and with it changes not only in the outward world but into the little circle of murmuring ones.

  3. Oh, let's get out of this awful place," moaned Cora.

  4. He has gone away and left us," moaned Margery.

  5. Straining all her ears, she made out that he was not speaking to her or any one, but moaned to himself, saying the same words over and over again.

  6. She writhed secretly, and moaned to herself--why did not mamma tell me?

  7. Sweat beaded her face and she moaned and stirred without opening her eyes.

  8. Behind him Lea moaned with returning consciousness and he hurried on to the sandcar, stepping over the charred body outside the door.

  9. She moaned without regaining consciousness, her lips seeking reflexively for the life-saving liquid.

  10. When Lawrence could no longer be seen through the trees, she sunk to the rock, folded both her hands over her knees, and fairly moaned with pain.

  11. When he was gone, Jessie threw herself on the floor, and, folding her arms in the seat of an easy-chair, moaned piteously.

  12. But think of his po-position," moaned Mrs. Merideth.

  13. But you don't know the worst of it," moaned the girl.

  14. Some of them appeared to be suffering all the terrors of the damned, and as they moaned and pleaded for light, the lovely face of my friend was convulsed with agony and her hands fluttered about like wounded birds.

  15. After each fall of the cone she moaned and writhed, but not till the hush of death came over her did the horn move.

  16. In the gloomy cities of the North, masses of men heaved and moaned as the sea when the south-west wind falls upon it.

  17. A gust of wind swept through the hall, and moaned upwards through the ancient house.

  18. Above us hung a lantern which we extinguished when we were ready; now the moon shone on the sail, the tempest howled and moaned round the boat, and the surf soon lulled us to sleep.

  19. There was no answer from Sir Nicholas; he still sat unmoved, his chin on his breast, as the Rector sobbed and moaned at his stirrup.

  20. Farther away a circle of dried and yellowing faces bespoke centuries of damp cabins; they moaned and sighed, a prey to the gross superstition of the moment.

  21. Wouldn't you know," moaned Roger, "that space creep had to show up just when I had the whole campaign laid out in my mind.

  22. The big Venusian moaned and opened his eyes.

  23. She moaned slightly in her sleep, and once or twice the lips moved as if in prayer--at least one might judge so, for the name of Him who suffered for all came once faintly from them.

  24. Flora moaned in her sleep, and made a slight movement.

  25. The wind moaned incessantly down the pass and over the ruin.

  26. The wind, caught between the walls, moaned as in the day, and he knew perfectly well what if was, but it had all the nature of a dirge, nevertheless.

  27. Fully half-an-hour passed before Meir left the cottage, where the outcast Shmul accused himself, wailed and moaned in a voice that gradually became lower till it almost sank to a whisper.

  28. Shane was deplorably difficult to manage--looked so like his father sometimes when angered, that she recoiled as she remembered the expression of his visage when she moaned over her fate to him upon this very spot all those years ago.

  29. And--and Iky Goronofsky says that they make frankfurters out of those poor dogs," moaned Dot, repeating a legend prevalent among the rougher school children at that time.

  30. The autumn night hung like a pall, Hung mournfully and dead; And if a wind had waked at all, It had but moaned and fled.

  31. Strange longings that he never knew till now, A sense of want, yea of an infinite need, Cried out within him--rather moaned than cried.

  32. Then Balin told him brokenly, and in gasps, All that had chanced, and Balan moaned again.

  33. Something approached that moaned and whimpered and was not mortal.

  34. The sky itself was overcast; a raw wind moaned through the trees, sighing a requiem.

  35. It was his mother's picture," moaned the doctor; "she died when he was ten years old.

  36. As the shadows crept slowly up the mountain, a slight breeze rocked the tops of the pine-trees, and moaned through their long and gloomy aisles.

  37. The parson moaned and dropped his chin into his hands.

  38. Oh, if I live through this I'll never go into anything like it again," moaned the youth upon the ground.

  39. But the poor old wretch only shrank closer to the ground and moaned her protests that she had nothing to do with the escape of the white squaw.

  40. I believe I did more harm than good," he moaned as he lay in bed.

  41. Grace moaned over her and held her close.

  42. The wind had lessened; it came no longer with bursts of anger, but, as though craving pardon for its fury, it wailed and moaned about the house.

  43. What little wind there was moaned stealthily among the elms, and on the house-wall the ivy-leaves scratched each other.

  44. She buried her face in her hands and moaned as she had not done since her mother left her just a few years before.

  45. He buried his face in his hands and moaned "Oh, my God!

  46. The touch seemed to burn her, for she moaned a little.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moaned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.