roan

How To Use roan In A Sentence

• Cue for groans and muttered oaths from my neighbors, and that was before they'd stepped out on to Madison, where New York's finest were out in force, checking identities and blocking off half the streets of midtown.
• Present receivings and comforts are consistent with a great many groans; not as the pangs of one dying, but as the throes of a woman in travail -- groans that are symptoms of life, not of death. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
• As he fell and rolled on the ground he moaned and groaned.
• As I watched him, he groaned and tried to raise his hands to his face; the chain from his wrist to his ankle manacles stopped him.
• Every evergreen bough groaned with half a foot of snow; the streets and sidewalks had disappeared.
• Its massive back pushed up against the ceiling; the wooden timbers groaned and dust sifted down, making Rafe cough.
• S'sahr barked an order and there were groans, but the troopers spread out keeping eyes open for any traces or tracks.
• He groaned, and felt the bulkhead, slowly coming to his knees, and standing, trying to orient himself to his position on ‘B’ deck.
• [_CATTY sighs and groans, striking the back of one hand reiteratedly into the palm of the other -- rises -- beats the devil's tattoo as she stands -- then claps her hands again. Tales and Novels — Volume 08
• A townsman appeared in the door as we approached, leading one of the roan Belgians out onto the road.