Wondering how to use Groaning in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as moaning or inarticulate.
Groaning meaning
- That groans.
- Heavily laden, as if to creak under the strain.
Synonyms of Groaning
Using Groaning
- The main meaning on this page is: That groans. | Heavily laden, as if to creak under the strain.
- Useful related words include: moaning, inarticulate, unarticulate.
- In the example corpus, groaning often appears in combinations such as: groaning under, and groaning, groaning and.
Context around Groaning
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 6 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Groaning
- In this selection, "groaning" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, uncomfortable, dull, countries, tortilla, issued and underpayments stand out and add context to how "groaning" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a dull groaning issued from and acknowledge the groaning as a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "groaning" sits close to words such as abstention, actuarial and admonition, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with groaning
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They’ll basically overload the tree until it’s groaning. (10 words)
The piles now are of books, and shelves are groaning with them. (12 words)
The British economy is already groaning under the effects of the pandemic. (12 words)
Kaduna, a state with a population of about ten million people and with 1,064 primary health care facilities appears to be groaning under weak management capacity in the state’s healthcare system. (33 words)
Wong’s secret sauce is to acknowledge the groaning as a healthy response – and just like that not only are we complicit in the daggy fun, turns out we’re doing “chair yoga”. (33 words)
In more severe cases, dehydration is severe, the animal will usually be laying down, the abdomen is markedly distended, and the animal is noticeably uncomfortable (groaning and grinding of teeth). (30 words)
For how long are you going to keep mourning and groaning about this pandemic without taking action? (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
A pork chile verde breakfast burrito with a lot of ingredients jammed into a groaning tortilla.
In more severe cases, dehydration is severe, the animal will usually be laying down, the abdomen is markedly distended, and the animal is noticeably uncomfortable (groaning and grinding of teeth).
In their glances gleamed an evil-boding fire, their teeth chattered and a dull groaning issued from their breasts.
Kaduna, a state with a population of about ten million people and with 1,064 primary health care facilities appears to be groaning under weak management capacity in the state’s healthcare system.
Ms Roberts said she saw Ms Starkey slumped unconscious behind her and Ms Barrell was "groaning and wailing".
They’ll basically overload the tree until it’s groaning.
Elsewhere the problem is transnational, poorer countries groaning under the exported tonnage of the global north’s waste exports.
Groaning can be heard, as well as a woman screaming in the background.
Her healing journey began when she opened herself up to her Creator after a night filled with deep sorrow and groaning.
The piles now are of books, and shelves are groaning with them.
Wong’s secret sauce is to acknowledge the groaning as a healthy response – and just like that not only are we complicit in the daggy fun, turns out we’re doing “chair yoga”.
Both are agoraphobics who do not seem to notice what’s going on outside where they are; those groaning under the feet of the fighting elephants.
For how long are you going to keep mourning and groaning about this pandemic without taking action?
Islamabad is groaning underpayments for the Economic Corridor, one of Beijing’s most important BRI projects, and it gave China control of strategic Gwadar on the Arabian Sea.
One of the girls, 17, described the attack, saying she could 'hear the man groaning'.
On the floor, a groaning Simmonds feared his jugular vein had been punctured and he was about to bleed to death.
The British economy is already groaning under the effects of the pandemic.
The party wielding the keris is licking its wounds in the corner, moaning and groaning over its abrupt fall from grace.
A crowd encircled the tiger in a jungle clearing and hit it in the face as it lay on its back, groaning.
Giving evidence, Kyle Welsh broke down in tears as he told the court: 'I heard my dad shout: 'She has stabbed me,' but it was like a groaning tone.
Common combinations with groaning
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- groaning under 5×
- and groaning 4×
- groaning and 3×
- groaning about 3×
- groaning in 3×
- it groaning 2×
- the groaning 2×