Example sentences for: moan

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

  • And listen to Miss Manners herself, who has to admit there has been progress: "When the nostalgic moan about the decline of etiquette, Miss Manners turns contrary and points out that it is only recently that frank expressions of prejudice have become socially unacceptable."

  • "To persuade the new Mrs. Larry King to moan during sex."

  • Stamp collectors moan that the Postal Service issues too many stamps, often commemorating frivolous subjects such as Bugs Bunny, hoping that customers will buy and hold these stamps rather than use them.

  • Kasparov reacted by reaching deep into the sports-cliché moan bag, maintaining that he had been cheated by some kind of backdoor playmaking help from the IBM team, that the real Garry Kasparov hadn't shown up at the match ("I was not in a fighting mood"), and that his coaching had been bad ("my biggest mistake was following the advice of computer advisers who recommended I play this way").

  • In a couple of weeks, we'll be launching our bulletin board, "The Fray," where readers from the White House or any other house can bitch and moan to their hearts' content (though a kind word or two would also be appreciated).


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