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UK
/hˈaʊlɐ/
]
[ US /ˈhaʊɫɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈhaʊɫɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a glaring blunder
- monkey of tropical South American forests having a loud howling cry
- a joke that seems extremely funny
How To Use howler In A Sentence
- I barken back to the rogue Taken Howler, the dead unexpectedly alive and inimical. Shadow Games
- Generally speaking, I tend not to get too bent out of shape by occasional rhetorical howlers.
- In addition to those pointed out already, your article on Lenin contains a number of other howlers.
- This night, the turtle was laying her eggs on a low shelf of sand near a line of dune scrub and low palms, not far from dense jungle that is home to the deadly fer-de-lance snake, caimans, howler monkeys and sloths.
- The fact that he cites, in his defense, a first class degree from Cambridge ‘specializing in philosophy’ only makes more indefensible his howlers and misconceptions.
- Loudest mammal - the Blue Whale. The second loudest is the Howler Monkey.
- Populations of howler monkeys, iguanas, and leaf-cutting ants exploded.
- The courtroom became a vaudeville theatre, as the MP lampooned his interrogators, accusing them of making ‘schoolboy howler’ mistakes.
- The dam would flood the Macal River valley - a so-called ‘Biogem’ of rain forest and fertile flood plain that is home to many endangered species like the howler monkey, jaguar, and tapir.
- Each one has committed a howler, from getting stuck in railings to being wedged in mid-air between two fences. The Sun