• They had made chewing motions with their mouths and produced blissful sounds, sometimes half opening eyes blind with sleep and then closing them again, stirring a little, and moaning because of the sweetness of their own existence.

    NEWYORKER: Among Animals and Plants

  • And if you're moaning about it then go and have a look in the mirror.

    BBC: Chick Young's view

  • The real-life characteristics of the simulation extend to him moaning and opening and closing his eyes.

    BBC: Scotland

  • When Mrs Mackenzie visited her mother back at GWMH she found her "moaning" and in "pain".

    BBC: Gladys Richards

  • "I was there in 1992, which was one of the most difficult years, and certainly people were moaning a lot, but they worked together, they still kept the milk coming for the schoolchildren, " says Emmett.

    CNN: Can the West cultivate ideas from Cuba's 'Special Period'?

  • Now, nearly 35 years later, Raitt is still moaning the blues and playing her trademark slide guitar, which is heard on her latest album, Souls Alike.

    NPR: Bonnie Raitt: 'Souls Alike'

  • While Messi often plays with a smile on his face like a kid in the schoolyard, Ronaldo is often seen moaning, gesticulating and scowling while trying to inspire Real to victory.

    CNN: Ronaldo admits perceived arrogance has cost him

  • Please forgive my moaning about the teas and luncheons you set up for Izzy.

    NPR: Part One

  • The west is littered with elderly Chicagoans who left the Windy City because of the cold and now can't stop moaning about their air-conditioning bills.

    ECONOMIST: The growth of private communities

  • "Stop moaning about the News at Ten and say you are going to do something about it, " he says.

    BBC: An evening with Nigel Farage

  • It has always been prone to panics, crashes and bubbles (in Victorian times this newspaper was moaning about railway stocks, not house prices).

    ECONOMIST: The world economy

  • Wigley, went the sotto voce moaning, devoted insufficient attention to assembly affairs and too much to Westminster.

    BBC: Bowing out but not down

  • Most entrepreneurs of all sizes, while moaning about Italy's high tax rates and welfare and labour problems, acknowledge that the centre-left governments of the past six years, especially Mr Prodi's, did take big steps towards liberalisation, though they failed to get this across in the election.

    ECONOMIST: A survey of Italy

  • Although the service sector (the bulk of the economy) remains fairly strong, manufacturers, especially those exposed to international markets, have been moaning for months about the combined effects of the Asian crisis and the strong pound.

    ECONOMIST: The economy

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