Moan Sentence Examples

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  • While eating dessert, they heard a muffled moan from the bed.

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  • The moan of that wounded beast (the French army) which betrayed its calamitous condition was the sending of Lauriston to Kutuzov's camp with overtures for peace.

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  • His warm lips left hers and started down her neck, forcing a moan from hers.

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  • She began to moan and sunk her nails into my back until we finally flopped back in exhaustion.

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  • The plaintive moan of reproach was drowned by the threatening and angry roar of the crowd.

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  • At last he heard a noise off to his right, a sigh or a moan in the blackness.

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  • When passion brought a moan to her lips, he finally lifted her into his arms and carried her to their bedroom.

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  • A soft moan sounding nothing like her reached his ears, and then slowly, out from under the cover, emerged a huge wolf with bronze colored fur.

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  • It was evidently not so much his sufferings that caused him to moan (he had dysentery) as his fear and grief at being left alone.

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  • She got up quickly just as Nicholas entered, almost ran to the door which was hidden by curtains, struck her head against it, and rushed from the room with a moan either of pain or sorrow.

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  • Suddenly the beast was heard to moan.

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  • The awful pain he suffered made him moan incessantly and piteously, and his moaning sounded terrible in the darkness of the autumn night.

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  • He clutched his head and gave a small moan.

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  • In 2006 Ricci proved that she is all grown up now with her portrayal of Rae in Black Snake Moan, a role which gave her several nude scenes.

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  • She uttered a low moan, and opened her eyes.

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  • The trouble is that we always moan about the weather.

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  • The prayer had come to be almost inarticulate, like the dying moan of a wounded beast in the forest.

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  • Otherwise he'll woe the day he was created and moan whenever you talk to him.

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  • A hair powder may extend the wearability of your style one whole extra day, so consider them a priority if you love your length but moan at the thought of frequent blowdry styling.

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  • Halfway through the third bag, the girl let out a soft moan.

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  • The warmth of his body and the feel of his hands brought a soft moan to her lips.

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  • Let us pay betimes A moiety of that mass of moan to come.

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  • Richards' first foray back into the life of a working actress came in 2006, when she played Christina Ricci's mother in the critically-acclaimed film Black Snake Moan.

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  • I guess you have to inform them but I dread listening to Quinn bitch and moan.

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  • Mr Allan had come into our office at Westminster to moan about the Guardian's insufficiently reverential attitude to Tony Blair once too often.

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  • On the Pratzen Heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his hand, lay Prince Andrew Bolkonski bleeding profusely and unconsciously uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan.

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  • In a ramshackle old house the wind becomes a constant, unsettling moan beyond the walls.

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  • Mr Allan had come into our office at Westminster to moan about the Guardian 's insufficiently reverential attitude to Tony Blair once too often.

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  • Andie fiddled with her wedding dress while she listened to me moan from warm water soothing my aching body.

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  • With sexually charged roles in movies like Prozac Nation, Monster, and Black Snake Moan, Ricci has successfully broken the child star mold.

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  • A final type of sleep start is a flowing sleep start where you might moan or grunt as you twitch and wake up.

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  • If a birth is difficult and the woman feels the need to moan or make other noise, she is not forbidden to do so.

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  • My favorite song of Steve's is "My Solitary Moan"; of mine is "Lady Snow."

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  • Now first, as I shut the door, I was alone In the new house; and the wind Began to moan.

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  • We moan with merriment, with purpose, with self-deprecating wit.

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  • A similar moan of surprise and horror ran through the crowd.

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