Example sentences for: groan

How can you use “groan” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the 1931 Dracula , however, which like Nosferatu is based on Bram Stoker's novel, Bela Lugosi has to be impaled through the heart in his coffin, whereupon he emits a strange little disappointed groan that remains a benchmark of decorum when compared with the hissing and writhing deaths of modern screen vampires.

  • (A bus accelerating and decelerating is like a lonely groan.)

  • They make us pause to groan the groan that is nearly laughter.

  • Critics groan at Jean-Claude Van Damme's sequel to the 1992 action flick about reanimated dead soldiers.

  • The rhymes are crude, though the beats are potent, as in this clip of his trademark groan, "unghh."


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