MOAN in a Sentence

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150 example sentences for MOAN, such as:

1. A low moan had fallen upon our ears.
2. A moan escaped the badly wounded soldier.
3. He moaned with pain before losing consciousness.
4. A long, low moan, indescribably sad, swept over the moor.
5. The conversation was here interrupted by a moan from the sick woman.

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 Meanings and Examples of MOAN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
moan
 n.  a low prolonged sound of grief or pain, whether articulate or not; groan softly and continuously
Classic Sentence: (144 in 10 pages)
1  She could only wait, wait and moan in spirit as she felt him withdrawing, withdrawing and contracting, coming to the terrible moment when he would slip out of her and be gone.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
2  She was gone in her own soft rapture, like a forest soughing with the dim, glad moan of spring, moving into bud.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
3  The conversation was here interrupted by a moan from the sick woman.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  There had been a moan and motion of the hand; and, with terror added to rage, he had struck and struck again.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
5  On the present heated afternoon, when no perceptible wind was blowing, the trees kept up a perpetual moan which one could hardly believe to be caused by the air.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 5 The Journey across the Heath
6  While he stood a sound between a breathing and a moan suddenly reached his ears.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
7  A long, low moan, indescribably sad, swept over the moor.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
8  It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and then the sad moan in which it died away.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
9  A low moan had fallen upon our ears.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
10  So grotesque was the attitude that I could not for the instant realize that that moan had been the passing of his soul.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
11  He had ceased to moan as we laid him down, and a glance showed me that for him at least our aid had come too late.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
12  "I just don't know what to do," she would moan.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
13  She heard the upstairs door open and a low wailing moan, wrenched from the depths of agony, came to her ears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
14  Rhett turned the horse's slow feet westward from Peachtree and the wobbling wagon jounced into the rutty lane with a violence that wrenched an abruptly stifled moan from Melanie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  A moan was wrenched from Melanie as he half-lifted, half-dragged her from the feather tick on which she had lain so many hours.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence:
1  Then a faint moan came sighing through the branches of the forest and the boys felt a fleeting breath upon their cheeks.
2  He turned his ear to the moan of the gale which seemed to breathe out in wrath from the heart of the earth.
3  A low moan of despair escaped her as she realized what had gone wrong.
4  A moan escaped the badly wounded soldier.
5  He moaned with pain before losing consciousness.
6  They were all moaning and groaning about the amount of work they had.