(v. i.) To give forth a low, moaning sound in breathing; to utter a groan, as in pain, in sorrow, or in derision; to moan.
(v. i.) To strive after earnestly, as with groans.
(v. t.) To affect by groans.
(n.) A low, moaning sound; usually, a deep, mournful sound uttered in pain or great distress; sometimes, an expression of strong disapprobation; as, the remark was received with groans.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the final three visible minutes, Lockett writhed, groaned, attempted to lift himself off the gurney and tried to speak, despite a doctor having declared him unconscious.
(2) If I give a conference here, people groan when I talk about him.
(3) Of the Iraqi people, groaning under years of dictatorship.
(4) We meet at the headquarters of the Independent and the Evening Standard in Kensington, in an office scented by a Jo Malone orange blossom candle, and groaning with contemporary art.
(5) Clippard gets ahead of him 0-2, throws a high fastball which Carpenter refuses to chase and then takes two more balls to the collective groan of Nationals Park.
(6) Despite the world-weary tone of a brutal review in the New York Times, which suggested that it added nothing new to the "groaning shelf" of homosexual literature, a story with an unashamedly gay protagonist unleashed a storm of protest in a country where sodomy was still illegal.
(7) It's the first interview he's done since his marriage and divorce and the split-up of the Ordinary Boys, and it all comes rushing out in a spate, a tangle of chronological confusions and jokes, and groans when I quote some of his old interviews back at him, and statements of contrition, and digressions about Dawkins or whatever, and here's the confounding thing - he's really nothing like I was expecting, not indie-boy sulky, or attempting to play it cool, he's just talkative and engaging, and he has a sense of humour about himself that, from reading his previous interviews, I wouldn't have even guessed at.
(8) Not all the jokes land, and some of the tastelessness may inspire groans.
(9) A s the schools break up for summer, the shelves of Britain’s retailers are groaning with “half price” sun protection cream offers, ready for families heading to the beach.
(10) The retired appeal court judge's report, which runs to three volumes, found that troops from 1st Battalion Queen's Lancashire Regiment inflicted "gratuitous" violence on a group of 10 Iraqi civilians, who were kicked and hit in turn, "causing them to emit groans and other noises and thereby playing them like musical instruments".
(11) "Oh God," groaned a delegate leafing through the guide to fringe meetings.
(12) There were groans as Clinton was declared victorious, although there was also defiance.
(13) Read more The MEPs responded to his oration with a mixture of boos, groans, shouts and ironic applause.
(14) The family justice review speculates that the cost of the entire groaning, overloaded family court system – only likely to be exacerbated after Thursday's report into the death of another toddler, Ryan Lovell Hancox – could be in the region of £1.5bn.
(15) The home fans groaned whenever the ball went near the Romanian, Benteke often pulled away to the left to unsettle him, and Villa’s opener came after he conceded possession cheaply inside his own half.
(16) Meanwhile, New York and New Jersey groaned back to life after travel bans.
(17) "There's a stereotype of a groaning bodybuilding guy using the weights area," says McGown.
(18) I'd groan at gossip magazines, furious with the world's asinine obsession with celebrity, disappointed by women gazing doe-eyed at the camera with vulnerable, save-me expressions on their Botoxed faces.
(19) Between their inward groans and suppressed giggles, the friends recognised something of great value, a familiar form no other artist had yet nicked.
(20) I can think of many things, of whether we summon the strength to recognise the global challenge of the 21st century and beat it, of the Iraqi people groaning under years of dictatorship, of our armed forces - brave men and women of whom we can feel proud, whose morale is high and whose purpose is clear - of the institutions and alliances that shape our world for years to come.
Yell
Definition:
(v. i.) To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror.
(v. t.) To utter or declare with a yell; to proclaim in a loud tone.
(n.) A sharp, loud, hideous outcry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Independent noted that one of the female protagonists yelled "You c***!"
(2) I started yelling at him to come back,” Brittany Nicely, of Dayton, told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
(3) Residents had called police after spotting a man wandering around the park and yelling incoherently.
(4) Five minutes from time a fat red shirt stalked past making the tosser sign and, for emphasis, yelling: "Fucking wankers!"
(5) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
(6) On the whole though, there is not much yelling but much tapping of keyboards.
(7) While Terry said that he did not see anyone else while confined at Homan in 2011, he said he heard people yelling “no, no, no” and “stop”.
(8) He lay on his back with his shoulders on the grass, his colleagues standing around, too nonplussed to yell their praises.
(9) When David Tennant was waxing eloquent in that legal drama The Escape Artist, no one yelled out from the jury that his watch looked bloody expensive.
(10) Bob Wigley, the Yell chairman and former Merrill Lynch senior executive, has emerged as a possible contender for the role of ITV chairman.
(11) "Yell remains our least preferred stock in the sector and has to be seen as a high-risk, speculative investment," said analysts at Numis.
(12) He said he was stopped by a Hi Tech security guard who yelled at him that they were trespassing and demanded his driver’s licence.
(13) Members of the House of Representatives voted to remove all flags at the federal Capitol, after a heated procedural debate led by Republicans that led to yelling and the display of the Confederate flag – on the House floor.
(14) During the manifestation, I heard an elder woman yell “Why are they murdering them?
(15) Donald Trump has reportedly yelled down the telephone at Australia’s prime minister and veered off into rants about China and Nato with French leader François Hollande.
(16) "Sometimes people do things to one another that don't make them feel good," Harris explains to a group of primary school-age children before prompting them, as an exercise, to yell "Go away!"
(17) Africans yelled at the police, "Cowards" and "Kill the white men."
(18) Two elderly men yell angrily from the window of a car with posters of the president-elect, Abd el-Fatah al-Sisi, plastered all over it.
(19) "What the hell," the old man yelled over the motor.
(20) One teacher, who was hiding in a closet in the math lab, heard Thorne yell, "Put the gun down!"