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Example sentences for: groan

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Here, as she did in The Second Shift , she's grabbed a social problem out of the air that ordinary people groan about a great deal and scholars and cultural critics generalize about equally ineffectually.
They make us pause to groan the groan that is nearly laughter.
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.
Republicans groan at anti-Clinton televangelist Pat Robertson's admission that the battle to remove Clinton is "over."
Yet despite the hearer's conventional groan and the perpetrator's equally conventional apology, everyone knows that verbal play gives a great deal of pleasure, justifying the great deal of ingenuity that goes into producing it.