Sentence examples for small moan from inspiring English sources

I heard him utter a quiet "Oh, no," followed by a small moan.

I let out a small moan, a sort of cry, but there is no emotion behind it.

Apparently, Shearley played about with a version featuring tunworth cheese and shaved truffle, the sort of thing that may cause one to emit a small moan.

Just one small moan: the plinky-plonky comedy score, for the sniffer dogs, for example: the sort of music you find on a certain kind of observational documentary, to show when it's supposed to be amusing.

I surprised my belle-soeur and almost embarrassed myself by letting a small moan escape me when she put a bowl of them beside my chair; they were beautiful so lumpy, Macadamian, salty, golden!

Dim sum are exquisite: evolved versions of classics – "Breakfast in Causeway Bay" (Wong's version of zha leung cheung fun) features sticky rice roll, fried dough stick and "lava floss"; and just the thought of the pork bun, with its snowy frosting of sugar, can cause me to emit a small moan of longing.

"By the time I reached the car, the pain had grown and was forcing small moans from my throat," Mr. Fliss said.

While we're on the subject of small moans to the continuity department, that exotic butterfly display at Satis House, collected by Miss Havisham's brother, she says, from "the furthest reaches of the earth in his quest for the purest specimen of beauty".

With a little moan, Nicky became a small girl, her hands dabbing at her face and tugging at her hair.

And yet here is the 1976 Booker winner set among a South Yorkshire mining family in the late 1930s, complete with small kitchen, moaning mother and an oldest son who snubs "yon pit" to become a writer in "that London".

"There's always a lot of moaning on Monday morning," said Mr. Cugini, 31, a small man with a bald head and a strong grip.