What is "moanings"

Usage examples of "moanings".

At length, however, the mournful notes of a whip-poor-will became blended with the moanings of an owl.

As the hours dragged on the child lost heart, and cried so piteously for her mother that it seemed to the Hawkinses that the moanings and the wailings of the mutilated men and women in the saloon did not so strain at their heart-strings as the sufferings of this little desolate creature.

The darkened room, the labored breathing and occasional moanings of the patient, the tip-toeing of the attendants and their whispered consultations, were full of sad meaning.

For a while Gwaay had made faint straining moanings like the whispers of a mute, but now even those had ceased.

If she sat very still, she seemed to hear muted whispers and moanings, battle cries and death cries, the clang of steel and the clash of shields.