All the way home Washington lay with his face against the Colonel's shoulder and merely groaned and wept.

The soaking boy merely groaned again and splashed some water into the face of a sow that had come over to investigate.

The man merely groaned again, his breath coming in loud, rasping snores.

Asked if she was still actively looking for a house to buy, she merely groaned.

Roger merely groaned, and bending at the waist, collapsed slowly forward until his forehead rested on the table.

Sven and Bretta, tired beyond words, merely groaned as they lifted their smaller loads.

Brianna did not know whether to groan in frustration or merely to hit her brother very hard over the head.

He merely groaned and twisted at the edge of the tank.

We worked at his lungs, but he merely groaned.

His enterprise merely groans under the yoke of concoction.