wail vs whale
Definitions
verb
- emit long loud cries
- cry weakly or softly
noun
- a cry of sorrow and grief
Examples
So it's a little more than passing strange that Mr. Brooks clucks about Mr. Obama's "über-partisan budget" when, given the last few weeks of shrieking and wailing from the Republicans about socialism and communism, he's been the voice of moderation in the room.
Yea, we see in that wailing infant of a week, the outspringing of an immortal spirit which may soon hover on cherub-pinion around the throne of God, or perhaps, in a few years, sink to the regions of untold anguish.
When we moved from pilot to series, the notion of recasting Mitchell, Annie and Herrick was met with wails of despair.
Definitions
noun
- a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
- any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head
verb
- hunt for whales
Examples
We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news.
In 100 days we saw two pods of dolphins, a pod of blue whales and a few marine birds.
Back on the boat and heading to shore, we spotted a spout, a fin and then the flukes of a humpback whale.
