(v. i.) To make a low prolonged sound of grief or pain, whether articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously.
(v. i.) To emit a sound like moan; -- said of things inanimate; as, the wind moans.
(v. t.) To bewail audibly; to lament.
(v. t.) To afflict; to distress.
(v. i.) A low prolonged sound, articulate or not, indicative of pain or of grief; a low groan.
(v. i.) A low mournful or murmuring sound; -- of things.
Example Sentences:
(1) The voters don’t do gratitude, self-pitying politicians are wont to moan.
(2) "A lot of people think, 'you're in work, what are you moaning about?'
(3) I was moaning about something, he was moaning about something.
(4) His department has formally complained to the BBC head of news, Helen Boaden, about the broadcaster's "carping and moaning".
(5) She thinks it's simple sexism, though she is loth to spell this out: "You can say that, but if I do, I'm just seen as moaning, playing the woman card again.
(6) That pitted him against the Democrat Jack Conway in November as the Republican elite moaned that such Tea Party rebellions would cost them seats.
(7) Jeremy Corbyn sweeps to victory increasing his mandate as Labour leader - Politics live Read more MPs who refuse to sit on the frontbench do not need to sit around moaning about Corbyn nor limit their ambition to avoiding deselection.
(8) This man's lawyers say he was then severely beaten: they allege that the initial blows, and their client's moans, can be heard faintly at the end of the video.
(9) Most moans 1 The Wright Stuff, Channel 5 (2,220 complaints) Matthew Wright uses Taggart catchphrase when talking about a suspicious death in the Western Isles.
(10) Ilike to go on Facebook and moan to friends about how awful Twitter is these days.
(11) When he is out socially he sometimes tells people that he works for the Post Office (it stops them soliciting invitations to send him scripts, and moaning about the kind of comedies they hate).
(12) He waits, outside, hearing "piteous, animal moans".
(13) No doubt if she worked on the checkout in Tesco you’d be telling her to resign over the company’s financial fraud investigation or the moans about how it treats its suppliers.
(14) Elias said: "There was shouting, moaning – even screaming – coming from the TDF [temporary detention facility] from time to time during the detention, according to some witnesses."
(15) G4S staff are relaxed about this, noting simply: “Prisoners moan.
(16) For me that is one of the most important battles for fairness.” During the presidential campaign he was caught moaning about “intellectual women who think they are downtrodden”, or who talk about their “ compañera ” cleaning lady, “when she is really the servant”.
(17) The video showed at length the interactions between Ms Dhu and police in the station , including moments when she can be heard crying and moaning in pain and asking for medical attention.
(18) Would anybody have any sympathy for the casino manager if he then started moaning that he’d lost £25,000?
(19) Stop your moaning about equal-rights this, maternity that, childcare the other.
(20) This isn't a sub-Rhodesian moan about Britain going to the dogs.
Mona
Definition:
(n.) A small, handsome, long-tailed West American monkey (Cercopithecus mona). The body is dark olive, with a spot of white on the haunches.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mona Deeley, a producer for Cinema Badila: Alternative Cinema on BBC Arabic TV , said: "The secret cinema is an interesting initiative for both subverting the ban on cinema and as a form of civil and cultural resistance."
(2) A sample of black material removed from the back wall was analysed with a scanning electron microscope and was found to be similar to black pigment found by the Louvre in brown glazes on the Mona Lisa and the painting St John the Baptist, the team said.
(3) "There is a huge media campaign to distort the real image of the Iraqi revolution, by claiming that it is led by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS)," Salim tells Mona: ...but the truth is that all the Iraqi resistance factions have taken part in the revolution including Islamic factions.
(4) Her fellow tenants at 28 Barbary Lane, Mona Ramsey and Brian Hawkins had surnames drawn from my Southern father's self-published family history.
(5) Retreating to your lab and hoping it will all go away is not going to be the best strategy Andrew Rosenberg, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration In March, Bill Nye , the bow-tied embodiment of science for many Americans, and Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician who alerted the world to soaring levels of lead in the blood of children in Flint, Michigan, were named as honorary co-chairs.
(6) These actions targeted two demographics … most associated with ‘polluting’ Cairo’s city centre: street vendors and revolutionary activists.” Whether the wall’s lack of heritage status is a deliberate government strategy, AUC sociologist Mona Abaza, who has written extensively about the graffiti, says it certainly serves their political interests.
(7) It was compared with Duchamp drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa.
(8) Thursday's first US-style televised presidential debate in the Arab world will be broadcast on Egyptian TV between candidates Amr Moussa and Abdel Moneim Abou el Fotouh, with the debate moderated by leading talkshow hosts Yosri Fouda, Mona el-Shazly and Reem Magued.
(9) Egyptian-born blogger Mona Eltahawy says that social media has given the most marginalised groups in the region a voice.
(10) The Nazis would have sought the Mona Lisa without rest, demanding it be handed to them upon their entry to Paris, and hunting it down if it were not.
(11) While the band were already fans of Monae, whose album they play in the studio, Kiesza, the Juno award-winning Canadian singer, was brought to Duran Duran by their publisher.
(12) The Savage Beauty show was wildly successful, attracting more than 660,000 visitors in 2011, making it the eighth most visited exhibition in the Met's 142-year history and putting it in a top 10 that includes the time the Mona Lisa came to Manhattan in 1963 and a Treasures of Tutankhamun show in 1978.
(13) He founded the Mukto-Mona (“free mind”) blog which supported and nurtured a community of free-thinkers, secularists, atheists and humanists in Bangladesh.
(14) When he died, the socialite Mona von Bismarck, whose loyalty to the designer was such that she had him run up her gardening clothes, took to her bed for three days in mourning.
(15) "A Sweden free of fossil fuels would give us enormous advantages, not least by reducing the impact from fluctuation in oil prices," argues Mona Sahlin, minister for sustainable development.
(16) His father, Wilfred Paradine Frost, was a Methodist minister of Huguenot descent; David reportedly more resembled his mother Mona.
(17) She tells The Guardian's Mona Mahmood ( @monamood ) about conditions for civilians in the Iraqi capital .
(18) To date, Zarathustra has adorned the Mona Lisa, which Petrova says makes her “look like a modern girl who’s taking a selfie with her cat” and US President Barack Obama’s hope poster, which came to symbolise his 2008 run for the White House.
(19) The elegance of that corporate choice is like the ambiguity of the Mona Lisa 's smile, the ruthlessness of Mike Tyson's punch and the adaptability of the malaria virus combined.
(20) The men were dragged half-naked into police trucks in the late night raid, which was filmed by a private television crew headed by presenter Mona Iraqi.