Eksempler på groan

• The machinery might well have creaked and groaned, but printers and authors could still have felt intimidated by its operation.

• At this point, the bandaged puppet groaned and made a sad face.

• Private enterprise at the present time is groaning under the burdens of taxation.

• They also argued that the country groaned under too much bureaucracy and that therefore individual freedom and creativity were being suppressed.

• One presses buttons and says "leaders", and one gets a chorus of groans; one says "elite", and one gets a chorus of groans.

• Moans and groans and the shaking of a head.

• In spite of the groans and despondency which we hear all around and in which we indulge ourselves, the picture is not universally gloomy.

• The whole country is groaning under a burden of taxation so heavy that it is materially diminishing our chance of recovery.

• They, together with the teachers, civil servants and gas workers, who have all been groaning under the burden, are sent empty away.

• I am sorry to hear some groans behind me.

• There has been moaning and groaning, but people have carried on.

• They have said, first, that industry has been groaning under a burden of taxation.

• I am extremely glad that recruiting is good and that we have not heard moans and groans about recruiting.

• More than that, millions now groaning under the iron yoke of tyranny will be given new hope of life.

• The judiciary are now required to preside over a system of criminal and civil justice increasingly groaning under the strain of under-resourcing and understaffing.