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UK
/hˈaʊlɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈhaʊɫɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈhaʊɫɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
had a rattling conversation about politics
the film was fantastic!
a tremendous achievement
a marvelous collection of rare books
a howling success
a fantastic trip to the Orient
NOUN
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a long loud emotional utterance
their howling had no effect
he gave a howl of pain
howls of laughter
How To Use howling In A Sentence
- As luck would have it the winds had been howling onshore for almost a solid week.
- So whether you read from left to right (sent howling from the garden where the stories all begin) or simply wander as gaps in the crowd permit, the pillars of the chapel will have told you how to navigate. on one side the pair of them driven like cattle, her face with its sockets of grief. and on the other side the premise still unspoilt. or is it promise? Two Poems
- But the howling vacuum had opened up inside her again, with its endless vistas of nothingness and no return, the harlequinade of grasping, painted lovers. Shortcut Man
- He won the summit in the thick of howling wind and driving snow, providentially stumbling upon Trust
- Any dog not in harness was howling and yelping to be put in one, and even when harnessed they continued with their wretched wailing until they were off and running.
- You can just imagine the wind howling round outside while everyone crowds into a stone cottage, a fire roaring in the grate and a group of friends simply playing together for the sheer fun of it.
- Having twirled in a frock, he dons jackboots to play Adolf Hitler in Springtime for Hitler, the production's howlingly awful play-within-a-play.
- The dog was howling like a soul in torment.
- That she-devil is outside; I heard her howling.
- Then she ran off, faster than any wildcat, and the men went on howling and shrieking, trying to untangle those knots.