They could hear the wind moaning in the trees beyond; there was a sudden rattling at the door.
Over this she threw herself discreetly, with a little choking scream, and lay moaning among the leaves beside it.
Then others took up the cadence with a moaning wail that gradually died away until there was unbroken silence again.
It begot in me a shudder that I could not repress, for the moaning and wailing appeared to be associated with death rather than life.
Then he lay very still, and there was an oppressive quietness through which she could hear the crackle of the stove and the night wind moaning about the ranch.
He sat up in his blankets and listened intently, but could only hear the hoarse roar of a river and the little cold breeze moaning in the pines.
Tom," he twice called softly, but only the moaning of the branches overhead answered him, and with a little gesture of impatience he strode into the bush.
There was nothing but the moaning of the wind, the ranch was very still, and the sound of his watch grew maddening.
He himself turned his attention to the wounded dog, which was still moaning on the ground, and looking at him with an expression that seemed to say, "Why do you not first come and assist me.
It drew nearer; and just as he thought it was about to spring upon him, it uttered a low, moaning noise.
The four Makololo were rolling about upon the floor, moaning heavily, as though in the last agonies of death.
After the service at the cemetery, the grave-diggers were startled by sounds of moaning proceeding from the coffin.
Love, in thy everglades, moaning and motionless, Look, I have fallen; the evil is potionless.
Arrogant you lift defiant Boughs against the moaning blast, That, like some invisible giant, Wrapped in tumult, thunders past.
Ruth walked to the door and threw it open, standing on the threshold and gazing out into the dull moonlight, across the vast sweep of plain from which came the low moaning of the night wind, laden with mystery.
The wife and children were crying and moaning in terror and pain.
One of the prostrate forms had risen and was groping around on its hands and knees, uttering a strange moaning sound.
When the morning dawned the boy awoke with hot cheeks and bloodshot eyes, moaning and restless, and would only be quiet when pillowed in the arms of his new-found friend.
Or rather, every window was black, without a glimmer of hope, and he who was shut in thick darkness heard the wind and the rain, and the noise of the elm-tree moaning and beating and weeping on the walls.
The rain had ceased, and the wind was moaning over the sea as if it had been balked of its prey.
The moaning of the uncle grew less and his figure stopped its rocking; but his red, blotchy eyes looked furtively at the young man, biding their owner's time for a renewal of hostilities.
A man who is outside it all cannot help being irritated by seeing his friend moaning and groaning about a feeling which does not concern him in the very least.
Bella Bruce lay with her head sidewise on the table, and her hands extended, moaning and sobbing piteously for poor Sir Charles.
He kneeled down by her side, the stout old warrior, and read the letter, while she clung to him, moaning now, and quivering all over from head to foot.
He laid the moaning girl on the sofa, ordered his servants to admit nobody into the house, and drove at once to Mayfair.
Gay helped to lift Marice into the two men's arms, and they went ahead with their moaning burden; then she came back to Druro, who was staggering vaguely along.
Mrs. Hading lay moaning terribly on the ground, with Tryon and Gay bending over her.
Private Files, and with a howl of despair the sixteen officers fell to the ground, writhing and moaning in anguish.
As for the officers, the name of the great Jinjin set them moaning and weeping at a great rate and every one fell upon his knees before the throne, begging for mercy.
Through the smother came the loud moaning of fog-horns in the Firth.
The tiniest scratching or lowest moaning could have been heard, for the warm spring evening was very still, and there were, as yet, few leaves to rustle.
The moaning wind, that bent the tops of the higher trees, soon increased to a gale, howling along the valley, while the cold driving rain swept over us in the most pitiless manner, and with a steady determination that augured a night of it.
He a bewildered answer gave, Drowned in the sullen moaning wave, Lost in the echoes of the cave.
Immediately the thump and swish began again, though the moaning obligato did not.
He saw smoke rising from the chimney, and when he dismounted and ascended the steps he heard a strange swishing and thumping, accompanied by a melancholy moaning which put him in mind of a dog scratching a sore ear.
Well, sort of moaning as if he was scratching a sore ear.
On one side of me, in an alcove similar to mine, a sick man, tortured by a sharp attack of rheumatism, kept constantly moaning and crying.
The unceasing spatter of rifle fire, the moaning wind, the rain beating a tattoo on mess-tins, and above all, the shouting of human voices drown my command.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moaning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: gripe; howling; lament; lamentation; moan; moaning; mourning; sigh; sobbing; sorrow; wailing; whining
