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How to use the word GROANING in a Sentence?

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Shincheonji destroys families and separates children from their parents, i can't sleep at night thinking my daughter might have been infected and is groaning with pain in seclusion.

Lee Yeon-woo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

All night long, she would be moaning and groaning and I would be massaging her legs, every day was just like she has one more day to live.

Linda Evans

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

His back hit the ground. He did not get up, he was making slight, groaning sounds.

Daniel Li

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It looked like a guy's arm at first because we were expecting to see a skier, but it was moaning and groaning and moving and we realized it was a moose, even though only his ears and some of its snout was sticking out of the snow.

Marty Mobley

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.

Daisaku Ikeda

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening roar. It's a time for madness a time for our fangs to come down and our eyes to glaze over so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy. Oh yes, ecstasy, I welcome thee

David Assael

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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