The word "groan" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the sound made when someone is expressing physical or mental discomfort, such as when they sigh heavily or moan in pain. For example, "He groaned in frustration when he saw how much work he had to do."
Warsi was poised to flounce, they groan, once her hopes of shaping UK policy were exposed as delusions.
Word got round during the interval that it was down to the exquisite torture of penalties, and when the announcement was broadcast to "return to your seats as this evening's performance is about to continue" there was a groan of dismay.
Unexpectedly he lets out a guttural, melancholy groan.
Personally, I've stuck with the show for the imaginative plotlines and strong characterisation – and very much despite the irksome "medieval" costumes (groan), stupid dragons (eye roll) and risible levels of female nudity that reduce it to soft porn for schoolboys (overgrown and otherwise) presumably too emotionally stunted to lust properly over, say, Lara Croft.
Hearing a groan of dismay from 1,000 people seeping through the tannoy is not the ideal start to your perilous evening.
Forgive me if I echo the loud groan of an occasional attender at meetings of the Inklings, the Oxford literary group where Tolkien would read his early drafts: "Oh no, not another fucking elf".
But a groan is not your only answer.
These will include: exemption from corporate taxes, provided they pay most of their earnings out in dividends; balance sheets that do not groan under mountainous debts; and no nagging fears of hidden losses tucked away in dummy companies.The existing property companies are the most aggressive promoters of Japanese REITs, so there will inevitably be some conflicts of interest.
Tables groan with ice sculptures, Scottish smoked salmon and caviar canapés.
The magazine racks of bookstores groan with political magazines.
Whichever side wins, the bill for the east will stay huge into the next decade, and Wessis will still groan about it.
