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"Wail" in a Sentence (20 examples)
Meanwhile a mingled murmur through the street / rolls onward – wails of anguish, shrieks of fear –, / and though my father's mansion stood secrete, / embowered in foliage, nearer and more near / peals the dire clang of arms, and loud and clear, / borne on fierce echoes that in tumult blend, / war-shout and wail come thickening on the ear.
Please don't wail like that, you'll make the neighbours think there's been a death in the family.
You can cry and wail all you like, no one is going to hear you.
Brenda let out a loud wail at the sight of her dead daughter.
Believe it or not, her job is to go to strangers' funerals and wail.
The wail of sirens was so loud that I couldn't fall asleep.
Yanni heard a police car briefly wail its siren outside.
Karl heard a police car briefly wail its siren outside his house.
She does nothing but wail all day.
The wind wailed and the rain streamed down.
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to wail one's death
My lord, wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes
Another outstanding surfer from Hawaii - Fred Hemmings. Fred only stands up on alternate Wednesdays, but when he does, he really wails.
At Boston's Roseland, as "the Count's band was wailing," he grabbed Mamie, an avid dancer. The "band was screaming when she kicked off her shoes and got barefooted
The band was really wailing as we quickly made our dance moves in a most provocative manner.
We had a nondenominational wedding, with a bunch of great Sufi musicians really wailing, and my wildly enthusiastic mother in attendance.
She let out a loud, doleful wail.
The wail of snow-dark winter winds.
A bird's wail in the night.
Wailed wine and metes
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