Words similar to groaned

Example sentences for: groaned

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When asked to send the Turow, Drew groaned at our lowbrow taste, but quickly said he'd send it the next day.
Richard Durbin, D-Ill., likened Starr to the obsessed, wrongheaded investigator in The Fugitive . Republican senators groaned at Starr's gaffe, citing it as further evidence that the independent counsel law should be scrapped.
The stubborn aristocracy and high clergy were anxious to protect their ancient privileges; a burgeoning bourgeoisie longed for reforms that would give them greater opportunity; the peasantry was no longer prepared to bear the burden of feudal extortion; and a growing urban populace of artisans groaned under intolerable hardships.
While I groaned, he described the final hours.
Cynics groaned that Hitchens was aiming at Clinton but has clumsily shot Blumenthal instead.