Sentence examples for moaning the from inspiring English sources

(I'm picturing a small, sad shrine with Judy Garland moaning "The Pan That Got Away" in the background).

Not Judy Garland, I can hear you moaning, the show business legend whose sorry life has not exactly gone unmilked for cheap pathos elsewhere.

Near the end, when she sang "I'd Rather Go Blind" by Etta James ("the woman who taught me how to sing"), it was pure soul heaven, Faith's voice moaning the crucial three repetitions of "I was just... .....

There is no music like that music, no drama like the drama of the saints rejoicing, the sinners moaning, the tambourines racing, and all those voices coming together and crying holy unto the Lord.

Peter Mandelson was moaning the other day that the millennium had left no permanent remains worthy of note, neglecting to add that it was entirely his fault that this was so.

"The guitar is now singing the blues, moaning the blues, crying the blues in a nearly human voice," Mr. Lomax, who died last year at 87, wrote in "The Land Where the Blues Began".

"I can't see anything!" moans the lion.

As they moan, the nurses tell them to be quiet.

"They hate us there," moan the band, poetically of course.

"They even let pubescent girls swim in the sea," moans the culture minister.

"Look, we know it'd be pricey," moaned the tantalized photographic masses.