How To Use Wailing In A Sentence

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. Moderately Shocked
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. The Christian Home
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.
It was pandemonium, people wailing and screaming.
ln less than six minutes, the ambulance came wailing back from the shipyard, one of the police cars in front of it running interference. CORMORANT

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Rarely has so much wailing been to so little effect. Times, Sunday Times
He didn't attempt to swat it a third time, but opened the door, and stumbled downstairs, wailing. SACRAMENT
As with most games in this niche genre, AE features wailing guitars, canned jazz, and an array of real-world aircraft.
Kippletringan was distant at first a gey bit; then the gey bit was more accurately described, as ablins three mile; then the three mile diminished into like a mile and a bittock; then extended themselves into four mile or there-awa; and, lastly, a female voice, having hushed a wailing infant which the spokeswoman carried in her arms, assured Guy Mannering, It was a weary lang gate yet to Kippletringan, and unco heavy road for foot passengers. Chapter I
But such a weak, puny, wailing princelet as he was! Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
The screeches of some of the more outlandish among gloomy modern composers or the illiterate wailings of some vapid rock ‘musician’ are subjected to sham scholarship and pseudo philosophising.
Hand held speed cameras are deployed to facilitate enforcement evidence aimed at the minority of cyclists who flout the rules and who react in an aggressive manner, usually bewailing the breaching of their civil rights.
The platypus is wailing, "No sleep 'til Burlington!" at the top of hisherits voice, and, soon, the neighbors will begin to complain. Waking the Witch
So far the Obama Administration, to our surprise and perhaps its own, has behaved with admirable sobriety despite the wailing from the political left. The Housing Bust Lobby
They are like dead walls and the place they enclose like a vault, and the itinerant drab like a thing in drab cerements (they trail the dust) that ought to be dead wailing for entrance to things, tombed in those walls, that are dead. This Freedom
Suddenly Ah - chin rushed in sobbing and wailing, her dishevelled hair hanging over her face.
I heard shutters banging and people wailing and babies crying and dog barking.
Martin walloped me on the back and poured me a double and, ‘shamed as I am to admit it, I started bawling and wailing.
This penitency consists in three things -- First, An inward insight of sin, and sense of mercy; Secondly, A bewailing of thy vile state; The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God.
Theresa gasped, but the sound got lost in the wailing broadcasted in Dolby sound from the two far corners of the room. THE VENDETTA DEFENCE
One evening under the shadow of the Red Fort I see a passing wedding procession: the groom rides a caparisoned white horse and is followed by a band in uniform with wailing trumpets and banging drums.
She seldom smiles and takes offense at the least excuse, crying rivers of tears and wailing.
He didn't attempt to swat it a third time, but opened the door, and stumbled downstairs, wailing. SACRAMENT
Yawn in a semiswoon lay awailing and (hooh!) what helpings of honeyful swoothead (phew!), which ear-piercing dulcitude! Finnegans Wake
And when these had vanished in the distance Graham heard a peewit wailing close at hand. When the Sleeper Wakes
It is my second fast day this week and you can probably hear my stomach wailing. Times, Sunday Times
The band's catalogue goofs on everything from country to wailing metal.
And the sakieh raises its wailing, wayward voice and sings to the shadoof; and the shadoof sings to the sakieh; and the lifted water falls and flows away into the green wilderness of doura that, like The Spell of Egypt
Police were cordoning off the road as wailing ambulances weaved their way through the traffic.
The bumping was getting louder, the wailing more intense. Times, Sunday Times
Cecilia is wailing away at the organ like Amanda Mae Meyncke and hallucinating little wing-ed dudes trailing clouds of glory. I never knew | clusterflock
One day she came home from school to hear agonised wailing. Times, Sunday Times
They make loud wailing cries, especially in the early morning, they leave foul messes on the roof and their nests block gutters. Times, Sunday Times
wailing mourners
In the distances he could hear moaning and wailing.
In his book she should be sitting at home behind closed curtains, in half-mourning and bewailing her lot. A WORM OF DOUBT
A large brownish wading bird(Aramus guarauna) of warm, swampy regions of the New World, having long legs, a drooping bill, and a distinctive wailing call.
In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
Andrew gunned the engine and flipped the sirens on, sending the car shooting forward between the two rows of traffic that pulled aside, obeying the wailing noise.
You will have heard the recent wailing coming from across the Channel. Times, Sunday Times
Shrieking out and wailing, all the lawless teeth are gnashing.
So, despite all the screaming and wailing from the right about how Obama threatens America, an unnerving bipartisan consensus on the key precepts of American militarism has, in 2010, fully re-asserted itself. Jonathan Weiler: Deafening Silence: Why Our Ongoing Wars Are Not a Campaign Issue
The child was wailing loudly that she had hurt her foot.
The performance is exceedingly professional and occasionally stirring, mostly when frontman Dougy Mandagi trades vocal wailing for wailing on a floor tom to join drummer Toby Dundas in creating a forceful, percussive rumble. FreeFest: Drama club with the Temper Trap
They make loud wailing cries, especially in the early morning, they leave foul messes on the roof and their nests block gutters. Times, Sunday Times
• A 1593 Petition from the union of Thames 'watermen' bewailing the loss of business when playhouses on the Southbank were closed due to plague Media Newswire
It is my second fast day this week and you can probably hear my stomach wailing. Times, Sunday Times
Rose shows his roots in Bloch's ‘Hebrew Rhapsody,’ but he never distorts the music by imitating cantorial wailings, as some cellists have done in this work.
Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. The Bible, King James version, Book 30: Amos
We were wailing but nobody had a tape machine.
The BBC must have been wailing in despair when they realised the wasted potential of their "Neighbours".
Of course not - everyone feels sorry for him, but we don't wander round beating our chests and wailing like the easily led sheep of Liverpool do…
No wailing word gat Gudrun, no thought she had to weep The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
In such a county as Leicestershire, foxes are not "accidentally" killed, but when so, what bewailings over the "late lamented!" what anathemas upon the villain's head who is suspected of "vulpicide"! Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
Now the night was long upon Kamar al-Zaman, and he sat, bethinking him of his beloved, and bewailing what had befallen him and versifying, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The opening moments were an onslaught of wailing, rumbling sound that pinned us to our seats. Times, Sunday Times
Screaming, shrieking, wailing, she worked herself into a frenzy.
OK, I'll stop wailing and gnashing my teeth now.
Mat Maneri plays some lonesome violin, letting strings weep in blank, tragic beauty, plucking and wailing and sounding like a dying dog.
After a cacophonous ascent and destructive return to earth, it dies disconcertingly into reverberations of swashing seashore breakers, intertwined with disorientating echoes of still wailing guitars.
They make loud wailing cries, especially in the early morning, they leave foul messes on the roof and their nests block gutters. Times, Sunday Times
Her shrieking, wailing voice was the whisper of mortality piercing the ears like the banshee's own call, a twin to the driving terror that pierced the mind.
The audio was even more terrifying than the imagery - earsplitting wind, objects getting smashing, wailing children and a woman praying repeatedly. Tornadoes Hit Midwest: Missouri Tornado Kills At Least 116 (VIDEO)
They make loud wailing cries, especially in the early morning, they leave foul messes on the roof and their nests block gutters. Times, Sunday Times
I passed the doors as I was going to bed, and I heard something wailing and praying just as plainly as I hear you.
She was wailing in grief then growling in rage. The Sun
But when you're wailing in pain and pleading for assistance, it really is prolonging the agony. The Sun
A moment later several police cars pulled up, sirens wailing, to take charge. THREE IN ONE
You will have heard the recent wailing coming from across the Channel. Times, Sunday Times
The wild wailings of the pibroch were heard at times, interchanged with the drums and fifes, which beat the Dead March. Chronicles of the Canongate
It was, of course, all empty wind and unfounded wailing, but it still had an impact.
I can also remember wailing my head off as my mum tries to calm me down whilst going aboard an ocean liner to see my grandparents off on a cruise.
We heard wailing and screaming until sunrise. Times, Sunday Times
You describe the plaza in front of the Western Wall (what you call "the wailing wall") as "where Israel since 1967 holds nationalist mass gatherings such as torchlight processions celebrating graduation of recruits to elite army units and political demonstrations by right wing parties. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
He stood straight up, peered at some clouds, and made a long wailing call, rounded off by some burring notes.
The wailing of police cars about their unspeakable business. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, wailing babies are taken for granted on a bus trip.
They call it the wailing wall, but the only act of devotion on this west London street corner is to mammon not God.
With an aphonic buzz, the call to prayer would commence, and the wailing, intermingled with car horns, was our soundtrack of Istanbul. The Millions
Kippletringan was distant at first a gey bit; then the gey bit was more accurately described, as ablins three mile; then the three mile diminished into like a mile and a bittock; then extended themselves into four mile or there-awa; and, lastly, a female voice, having hushed a wailing infant which the spokeswoman carried in her arms, assured Guy Mannering, It was a weary lang gate yet to Kippletringan, and unco heavy road for foot passengers. Chapter I
You will have heard the recent wailing coming from across the Channel. Times, Sunday Times
The carriages were inside, and as the first wagon followed with its wailing occupants-all but Aphrodite, who was thrashing the tail-board with the remains of her gamp, in a fine berserk fury still-I hurried through the gates. Isabelle
On the heels of a serpentine bass clarinet solo, the piece ends with sax, trombone, and clarinet wailing against a massive brew of drums, congas, and bass.
All around however, I see weeping, wailing, and constant harrying from the conservative Blogaspghere. Poltical Language ( Ask the Focus Group )
Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
There was wailing in the village, where the women and children went without in order that what little they had might go into the bellies of the lean and hollow-eyed hunters who trod the forest in the vain pursuit of meat. The Famine
When it arrived, the people of Baghdad went forth to meet it and I went forth with them: and I saw the damsel among the women and she the loudest of them in lamentation, crying out and wailing with a voice that rent the vitals and made the heart ache. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The screeches of some of the more outlandish among gloomy modern composers or the illiterate wailings of some vapid rock ‘musician’ are subjected to sham scholarship and pseudo philosophising.
And this man was crying and crying, literally wailing on the street very loudly.
The women broke into a wailing chant, swaying backward and forward in abandonment, while one by one the men succumbed to the excitement till only Sime remained. THE MASTER OF MYSTERY
With all its wailing horns, weed-tinged organs, slammed guitars and throwdown vocals, Ode to Joy is exactly what makes the 21st century such a great time for rock music.
The owners who didn't know how to sow kept wailing that agriculture was not paying.
We heard wailing and screaming until sunrise. Times, Sunday Times
One day she came home from school to hear agonised wailing. Times, Sunday Times
From time to time he uttered soft regular sounds; he was wailing a dirge, that is, swaying backwards and forwards with his eyes shut, and shaking his head as drivers or bargemen do when they chant their melancholy songs. Mumu
He used to just loopily and gently rock out those songs, with the Black Amazons wailing away behind him, and it was just awesome. Archive 2008-06-01
Her hands were lifted in pleading beseechment, while her wailing voice sobbed with questions. The Pride of Hannah Wade
Crowds gather at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall, or Western Wall, sacred to Jews.
Kippletringan was distant at first 'a gey bit '; then the' gey bit 'was more accurately described as' ablins three mile '; then the' three mile 'diminished into' like a mile and a bittock '; then extended themselves into' four mile or thereawa '; and, lastly, a female voice, having hushed a wailing infant which the spokeswoman carried in her arms, assured Guy Mannering,' It was a weary lang gate yet to Kippletringan, and unco heavy road for foot passengers. ' Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01
¶ Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. Amos 5.
Pictures of yourself as a chubby, wailing baby are likely to be quickly skipped over, while images of your nearest and dearest sporting the cutting-edge fashions of yesterday are worth lingering over.
There been sirens wailing nightlong and explosions north and a new noise like a low whoop that goes then stops then goes again. RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE
The women of Lady Helen again chanted forth their melancholy wailings for the dead; and unable longer to bear the scene, she grasped the arm of her cousin, and with difficulty walked from the chapel. The Scottish Chiefs
Was it you who was up in the night wailing like a banshee?
In fact, here's what two African American residents wrote to a Boston abolitionist not long after the day in 1846 when Alexandrians (white, male) voted to approve the return of their city to Virginia, an act called retrocession: "[The] poor colored people of this city ... were standing in rows on either side of the Court House, and, as the votes were announced every quarter of an hour, the suppressed wailings and lamentations of the people of color were constantly ascending to God for help and succor, in this the hour of their need. The slave trade and Alexandria's withdrawal from D.C.
The latter being a VERY cool tune with Robin wailing at the end, “I wanna live in your body!” Holy crap, Cheap Trick’s Transformers The Fallen theme rocks! » Scene-Stealers
As I hurried up the stairs, the wailing grew louder. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
Next came a double file of priests in their surplices, with a missal in one hand and a lighted wax taper in the other, chanting the funeral dirge at intervals -- now pausing, and then again taking up the mournful burden of their lamentation, accompanied by others, who played upon a rude kind of bassoon, with a dismal and wailing sound. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1
A line of police cars screamed by, lights flashing, sirens wailing and ululating.
Around him, wailing women collapsed over the coffins of the dead.
Go to the Wailing Ziggurat, see if he's doing okay.
Instead of bewailing the number of people of high ability who are lost to this country through the ‘brain drain’ it is surely time to offer them an incentive to stay here rather than an increased burden to drive them away.
the wailing wind
In this silence, alert us to the wailing of people in peril, awaken us to possibilities of perfection, attune us to the sinews of strength that we share, so that our hands will not be lifted in destruction.
She threw the door open, and unladed the ass of all his wares, and first of the youngling, whom she shook awake, and bore into the house, and laid safely on the floor of the chamber; nor did she wait on her wailing, but set about what was to be done to kindle fire, and milk a she-goat, and get meat upon the board. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Even as when the daughter of Pandareus, the nightingale of the greenwood, sings sweet in the first season of the spring, from her place in the thick leafage of the trees, and with many a turn and trill she pours forth her full-voiced music bewailing her child, dear Itylus, whom on a time she slew with the sword unwitting, Itylus the son of Zethus the prince; even as her song, my troubled soul sways to and fro. Book XIX
One day she came home from school to hear agonised wailing. Times, Sunday Times
There was nothing so boring, she thought, as some one who was continually bewailing her lot.
She was wailing in grief then growling in rage. The Sun
Women were seen screaming and wailing at the hospital as ambulances ferried the wounded to the emergency department.
The bagpipes were wailing and some Rotary types were trying to rumba to it.
For hours we thus toiled up pathways seemingly fitter for goats than men, where leafless trees were bending destitute of life and helpless towards the valley, as the keen wind went sighing, moaning, wailing through their bare boughs and budless twigs. Across China on Foot
If he lay but a finger upon their earthly comforts, or hide their path for a few moments behind a sharp turning, they begin doubting and wailing, as if He were some God whose kindness they did not know, whose power they dared not trust; and the poor prayers by which they think they evince their faith, are little better than impa - Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor
He wrenches his hands in agony, and again again looks up to heaven, wailing his fate.
The bumping was getting louder, the wailing more intense. Times, Sunday Times
Rome which is called the market of Trajan, and then he remembered of the justice and other good deeds of Trajan, and how he had been piteous and debonair, and was much sorrowful that he had been a paynim, and he turned to the church of S. Peter wailing for the horror of the miscreance of Trajan. The Golden Legend, vol. 3
Making no further reference to the child, he sat listening by turns to a prolonged exposition of his sister's views on the management of children, and to the continued wailings which floated down from the room above, until, at length, as a more piteous cry than all frantically voiced his own name, "faver," his self-restraint gave way, and he rose hastily and went upstairs. The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn
Wailing her woe, the widow {41a} old, her hair upbound, for Beowulf's death sung in her sorrow, and said full oft she dreaded the doleful days to come, deaths enow, and doom of battle, and shame. Beowulf
Notably with an accompaniment of Mick Harvey's smooth, wailing organ and clanging percussions from Harvey herself as she sings like a possessed blueswoman. Epinions Recent Content for Home
The tobacco bullies are suing ABC for beaucoup bucks and wailing that they had been ‘defamed.’
Somewhere in the room, a baby was howling and wailing.
The opening moments were an onslaught of wailing, rumbling sound that pinned us to our seats. Times, Sunday Times
The cutesy, mincing vocals are dotted with ill-advised wailing and occasional outright mimicry of dudes like Beck.
During the speeches a young boy began wailing uncontrollably.
Winter shows yet again that wailing the blues effectively demands sizzling focus and a wagonload of knowledge. '70s Blues-Guitar Legend Wails Again
However, barely a day or night goes by without the sound of a burglar alarm wailing.
The band funks it up with varying shuffle drum backbeats, throbbing bass lines, a wailing saxophone and feathery keyboard treatments.
There are times when Jonsi's falsetto is right in your ear and at times it's like your in the middle of a thunder storm of wailing strings and distorted guitars.
With eagerness one turns toward the east, with angry impatience one marks the unchequered darkness; the crowing of a cock, that sound of glee during day-time, comes wailing and untuneable — the creaking of rafters, and slight stir of invisible insect is heard and felt as the signal and type of desolation. The Last Man
An hour had passed, when another Englishman was standing by the wailing girl, and round him a dozen shockheaded kernes, skene on thigh and javelin in hand, were tossing about their tawny rags, and adding their lamentations to those of the lonely watcher. Westward Ho!
Equally brilliant was his appearance in a yarmulke at the Wailing Wall.
The thin leafless trees were all bending away from the shore, and the wind went sighing, hissing, and almost wailing through their bare boughs and budless twigs. The Marquis of Lossie
On the peaty hummocks of Yew Tree Heath in the north-east of the forest, where a few hessian-coloured fallow deer merge into the rust-tipped bracken, the only sounds are the wailing of a redshank and the hum of bees.
There was keening and wailing, drinking and dancing. Times, Sunday Times
She wouldn't be able to stand that wailing.
So yea and verily it came to pass, like a storm force wind from the breath of God, a great wailing and gnashing of teeth arose from the multitude.
They are the spirits, the low spirits and melancholy forebodings, of fallen souls that once in human shape night-walked the earth and did the deeds of darkness, now expiating their sins with their wailing hymns or threnodies in the scenery of their transgressions. Walden
You want less wailing from the local mosque. Times, Sunday Times
The sick child was wailing miserably.
The opening moments were an onslaught of wailing, rumbling sound that pinned us to our seats. Times, Sunday Times
They make loud wailing cries, especially in the early morning, they leave foul messes on the roof and their nests block gutters. Times, Sunday Times
We heard wailing and screaming until sunrise. Times, Sunday Times
The bumping was getting louder, the wailing more intense. Times, Sunday Times
He saw the two whale-boats land on the beach, and the sick, on stretchers or pick-a-back, groaning and wailing, go by in lugubrious procession. Chapter 3
Hearing her wailing down the phone made us feel guilty. Times, Sunday Times
The sick child was wailing miserably.
On the two occasions I have heard him perform (on the telescreen, I hasten to add), what I heard was degraded, simple-minded, noisy, tuneless pop wailing.
It carried on wailing like a banshee for a good 5 minutes before I decided I couldn't take it anymore.
Kippletringan was distant at first a gey bit; then the gey bit was more accurately described, as ablins three mile; then the three mile diminished into like a mile and a bittock; then extended themselves into four mile or there-awa; and, lastly, a female voice, having hushed a wailing infant which the spokeswoman carried in her arms, assured Guy Mannering, It was a weary lang gate yet to Kippletringan, and unco heavy road for foot passengers. Chapter I
But for five whole days he plunged the land in wailing and sorrow, and for five whole days he was the only man in the Klondike. AT THE RAINBOW'S END
He's obviously disappointed that I didn't start a barney so he could join in or call for assistance and get the sirens wailing.
From time to time he uttered soft regular sounds; he was wailing a dirge, that is, swaying backwards and forwards with his eyes shut, and shaking his head as drivers or bargemen do when they chant their melancholy songs. Mumu
She sighs with relief when she hears sirens wailing in the distance.
Nearly Headless Nick tells us that the Wailing Widow travelled all the way to Hogwarts from Kent to attend his Deathday Party in.
When the towers collapsed, my building was shrouded in a debris cloud that shut out the light of day and muffled the sounds of firemen shouting and sirens wailing.
It had a dance beat with the synthesised sounds of wailing or sometimes heavy instruments.
A savage spot, as lonely and enchanted as ere beneath the waning moon was haunted by a woman wailing for her demon lover. TROPIC OF NIGHT
When a group of natives have been robbed of them by thoughtless white men and have found the sacred store-house empty, they have tried to kill the traitor who betrayed the hallowed spot to the strangers, and have remained in camp for a fortnight weeping and wailing for the loss and plastering themselves with pipeclay, which is their token of mourning for the dead. [ The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
The wailing is like Kaddish, an endless, frightened lament. SEA MUSIC
How DID you learn the secret of writing the decasyllable line, and whence that sweet wailing note of tenderness that accompanies your song? Roundabout Papers
The wailing of police cars about their unspeakable business. Times, Sunday Times
The girl was screeching and wailing at the same time as clawing and pinching Leanne.
A wooden vessel maneuvered to dock at a pier on Mahakam Ulu River, the sound of its whistle wailing far and wide.
Lyrically, it's the musician at his most personal and revealing, bewailing a love affair turned obsessive.
These are two very different audio mixes (the older track fast and furious, the new one with a deliberate, pained vocal and wailing guitar).
From his initial statements, we see Antony bewailing his outcast state and blaming it on Cleopatra.
Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows and sear.
I still feel the drunks wailing off key in cheesy bars should be "critiqued" by Dexter (my favourite vigilante serial killer) for murdering songs as they do, but not so the stars who perform with the Danny Kramer ultimate live band experience a couple of times a week. Winnipeg Sun
Furthermore, this characteristic wailing traditionally punctuated a ritual eulogizing, sometimes in rhyming form that required a fair degree of literary finesse. Gutenber-e Help Page
Landlords and administrators complained, contesting the legality of the takeover, bewailing deforestation, and, most interestingly, arguing that the latter caused dangerous soil erosion.
An hour had passed, when another Englishman was standing by the wailing girl, and round him a dozen shockheaded kernes, skene on thigh and javelin in hand, were tossing about their tawny rags, and adding their lamentations to those of the lonely watcher. Westward Ho!
Ollie wasn't happy at all about the whole thing and started wailing as soon as I began undressing him.
The ambulance arrives in a flurry of whirling lights and wailing sirens.
She was wailing in grief then growling in rage. The Sun
With Hawkins' long, blond hair covering his goatee and Grohl wailing on the skins, it almost felt like 1993.
The whole settlement echoed to the mournful wailing until the sound died away quite suddenly. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
Hearing her wailing down the phone made us feel guilty. Times, Sunday Times
For several years there have been letters and articles in your newspaper bewailing the traffic conditions along the main road arteries and particularly between Morecambe and Lancaster.
Welding punked-out, ska, psycho-rap backfilled with wailing metal dirges, Bad Acid Trip surge pedantically from whimsical to venomous in one foul breath.
But now the sky fills with flaggy clouds which flow out of Thunder-clap, and the world begins to go dark; the blue light from the Tower's ris-ing windows shines like mad eyes, and Roland hears thousands of screaming, wailing voices. Wizard and Glass
Being one sane amidst a crowd of the mad, I hardly dared assert to my own mind, that the vast luminary had undergone no change — that the shadows of night were unthickened by innumerable shapes of awe and terror; or that the wind, as it sung in the trees, or whistled round an empty building, was not pregnant with sounds of wailing and despair. The Last Man
But when you're wailing in pain and pleading for assistance, it really is prolonging the agony. The Sun
Hunt and Metta provide some lively moments, but Reed, a fine actor, is mostly reduced to wailing and whimpering.
A woman, prostrate with grief, lay wailing on the ground.
Wendy took off, wailing and crying about me being some heartless creep with no consideration for her feelings.
Meanwhile, the camp that had been quietly rioting towards sleep was roused to a frenzy of wailing. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
If I were truly dead I'd have every creature in the county weeping and wailing. GALILEE
All of this wailing is a long winded way of saying that, this morning, I cut 10k worthless, horrible, painful words out of my manuscript. It’s hard to walk the highwire with no tension «
The team were wailing over their defeat.

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