Response to puns, often

Usage examples of groans.

I had not yet fully recovered consciousness, when again I heard groans, mingled with half-stifled cries, as if from persons engaged in a deadly struggle.

Finally she was up, squatting in the leaves, her lower lip between her teeth, relieving herself with groans and gasps, her holes feeling scalded by the outpourings, and much of what she left on the ground was blood.

Echoing groans buffeted him, the flat, hard ground beneath him slowly buckling and shifting.

The black mountain, fissures widening, groans issuing from the dying edifice, seemed to pause directly over her.

Uncle John on the stairs, who, with many groans was trying to get to the defense of his strong box.

From upstairs came a series of creeks and groans that told her that her father, for all his attempts to avoid it, was as restless as she was.

They heard the terrified yells of men awakening into a nightmare, and the sobs, screams and groans of those cut down by the hail of shot or skewered by the sharp, ragged splinters.

The previous night, from the deck of the anchored Gull, they had heard terrifying, blood-chilling roars, rising and falling, then ending in a diminishing series of grunts and groans that sounded like the chorus of all the devils of hell.

Like the rest of his men, he was exhausted but able to snatch only brief moments of broken sleep, disturbed by the restless din and movements of the work gangs and the weak cries and groans of the wounded.

Gradually they sank into a torpor of despondency, broken occasionally by the groans of delirium and the clank of the links as they tried to find a more comfortable position.

The terrible silence that followed the thunder of the broadside was marred only by the screams and groans of the wounded and the dying.

A cry more prolonged than the others and ending in a series of groans effectually roused me from my drowsy lethargy.

Valentine, and unable to weep vented his agony in groans as he bit the sheets.

Mandan youths hanging above the ground from cords skewered to their shoulders, backs, and nipples, the groans and grimaces of the audience were ecstatic.

But she could hear the screams and groans of her own People as well as the war cries of the attackers.