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Businessmen moan about rigid labour laws, which there is little political will to reform.
And to justify it they moan about bratty little children bugging them.
The roommate appeared to be sleeping, but later that night began to moan.
The rides creak, moan and flash their lights at the same radically reduced rate that they turn and twitch.
They might moan and shift around, but they do not look toward a loud hand clap or pull away from a pinch.
Some sit and stare, some pace, some moan and chatter to themselves.
Singaporeans moan that besides shopping, dining and the movies, there's not a lot you can do here.
Other animals may whimper, moan and wail, but none sheds tears of emotion--not even our closest primate cousins.
Her laugh turned to a moan at the first ripple in her bones.
They moan about high taxes and the crushing burden of bureaucracy.
Or that freight trains rumble and moan through the low-slung downtown day and night.
It gives its hand-picked representatives a bit of leeway to moan about house prices, or even corruption.

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