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Sentence Examples It was the wail of a thousand banshees, mixed with the mournful cries of wolves. The good folk of Ireland quail in their beds when they hear the banshee wail of the Irish Postie. Naaz Hosseini's voice slips from a serene hum to a full-throated wail to a sweet high-pitched lilt, flavored by her roots in Armenia and Persia. The eerie wind began to sound like the wail of a banshee, the creaks and groans of the castle began to seem like footsteps stalking toward her. Amaiya opened her mouth to reply, but her hands flew to her ears as a banshee wail hammered the sky. Her once powerful wail was gone, and in its place was a thin weeping sound that broke her mother's heart whenever she heard it. The senior man broke away from the crowd and ran out the back door of the house to wail on the veranda. His vocal performance is powerfully nuanced as he veers from a soft, uncomfortably high croon to a barely contained wail by song's end. Amongst the moans of the wind, they hear a keening wail that sets her hairs standing up. When a young poet fails to find the words he can moan and wail and lament his wanton muse, gone off and left him bereft and lonesome. A volley of stones crashed through a nearby window, followed by a shower of glass and a woman's wail. Telephone users in the city these days have been treated to a sound resembling a ghoulish wail, if they inadvertently misplace the receiver. We may weep a little rather than ululate, gnash our teeth or wail to the rhythm of a thousand drums. The wind unleashed another unearthly wail that sent a chill rushing through his entire body. The droning wail of air raid sirens drives the citizens of Tokyo into bomb shelters or into the surrounding countryside. But the delivery sells it, and a song that opens with a descending chromatic wail and psychedelic wah-wah slide is just a bit much. This same mother will also tell you not to cut the tree, for it will bleed real blood during the night and cry out with a piteous wail. The end of the working day in the tea garden is marked by the wail of an air-raid siren. Living in the tobacconists on Dane Street owned by his parents, Amy and Fred, he would often be woken by the wail of the air-raid sirens. No noise in the sky, but a wail of sirens constantly around the park, so steady that they sounded like air-raid alarms in the London blitz. Show More Sentences But, in general, the wail of jazz trumpets and the melancholy echoes of domestic chaos remind you that Elysian Fields resounds with desperation. Some of her notes were almost a wail, others were pitched so high as to shake the chandelier. The bleeping from the life support monitor becomes a monotone wail as it signals the death of the patient connected to it. Fans with vastly different tastes still get off on its piercing wail, distorted rumbles, or clean and warm sound. The sharp, piercing wail of the alarm shattered her dream and woke her abruptly from her sleep. The pow-pow-pow of gunshots was a familiar sound, as was the wail of police sirens. I was standing in the cold, bare hallway of a hospital, listening to my child wail and scream from behind a closed door. He poured out his otherwise ignored feelings into music, making his flute wail with stormy rage, sigh soft dirges, or trill in happy abandon. Suddenly, alarms wail and lights start flashing all around the regeneration cylinders! But when the blizzards wail the Arctic fox curls its tail over its frosty nose and sleeps in the snows. I choke on the laughter, and out of my throat comes a harsh, guttural wail of despair. The captain threw back his head in a wail of anguish, jostling her body in his pain and frustration. The enemy bombers were shot down and a long siren wail told residents the air raid was over and that emergency rescue work must begin at once. His substitution prompted a wail of anguish from the midfielder and tears to sting his eyes. At that point, if you steal my remote, or my one daily allotted cookie, I will wail on you. Suddenly Tina let out a high-pitched wail, jumped from her cot and collapsed in a dead faint onto the floor. The evocative wail of the pipes is almost as familiar and dear to generations of New Zealanders as a rousing haka. Over the ruins of the castle rose an unearthly wind, carrying with it an inhuman wail. Then, with a felt-tipped pen or sharp pencil, mark the lag screw holes that were drilled in the ledger on the wail. The force was almost wiped out when an errant 2,000-pound bomb pulverized a section of the massive fortress wail. Show More Sentences The car tends to want to lift the front end there and push out toward the wail. He heard the banshee wail of an incoming rocket and so instinctively he dove to the ground. I remember the air raid drills held in school, the ones where a siren would wail and the teachers would tell us to get down on the floor, under our desks. Kirsty, understandably, was not impressed at being dumped on her dream day, and her bereft wail filled the church. This is a column about New Labour's complete failure to publicise its many progressive achievements, while screeching out its reactionary policies in a ceaseless wail. She let out a mighty wail from the pain, and writhed around on the ground. She let out a high-pitched wail and fled to the back of the room. They arrived in the capital to the mournful wail of air raid sirens. In fact, it's so vivid that as her words tumble out in rapid-fire succession, you can almost hear the wail of the ambulances blaring in the background. Their meals in the darkness were often interrupted by the wail of sirens, the sounds of bombs, and the screams of frightened civilians as they rushed to the nearest bunker. Stuck inside the pa, there was nothing the tribe could do, except watch and wail as their waka turned into kindling, their whares and their stronghold, completely destroyed. Then there was the high keening wail of the emergency vehicles. I croaked, woken from my recurrent dream of loading reams of information onto the computer, by a banshee wail that went on and on, somewhere in the very near vicinity. She is crying, a tearless wail, but she rubs her eyes out of habit. Aurella's voice suddenly rose into a banshee's wail of anger. The wail of the banshees had been growing in intensity for some time. In one isolated village the people weep and wail, bemoaning their plight. The company's acoustic boffins tuned the engine to introduce a throatier sounding note, so the all enveloping deep bass throb rising to spine tingling wail exists. Now she'd have to wallow through the snowdrifts and get it done before the boys woke up and started to holler and wail about how cold it was in the cabin. The sudden wail of an infant outside the bathroom door startles us. Show More Sentences Then it gave out a horrible, inhuman wail and melted back into black ooze. Jazz bands swing, they groove, they jump, smoke, wail and wig out. He opened his mouth and began to howl, face crumpling with his siren wail. It is shown by microchemical identification and EDAX analysis that the crystals embedded in the wail of crystalliferous phloem fibers are calcium oxalate crystals. All of a sudden, the cries stopped to give way an ear-piercing wail. I wail unhappily, kicking discontentedly at my gear on the floor. To ensure the wail system is airtight, our drywall applicators fully caulk the gypsum board face layers, the outside edges of all membrane cutouts, and all penetrations. Binturongs can make chuckling sounds when they seem to be happy and utter a high-pitched wail if annoyed. Small hands flailed, the downy head turned from one side to another and suddenly the rosepetal mouth opened and Emily let out a wail. The does emit a soft pheep to call to their fawns, whilst an injured deer will emit a screaming wail. Direct tracheoscopy revealed the presence of a 4-cm perforation in the posterior tracheal wail. There's a plaintive wail in bluesman Andy O'Brien's voice when he sings, a spark of melancholy that cracks in between verses. Nuliajuq also took away the voices of the fulmars so they could not deceive another innocent woman, but they still call and wail in regret. Och, murther! faix, some spell my pipe bewishes, I've played a wail and raised the little fishes. A helicopter chugged above and there was the wail of a siren. The nights were now cold, gemmed with a multitude of bright stars, uncanny with the querulous wail of coyotes and the occasional deep voices of wolves. With swaying arms they wail in pneuma over the recreant Bloom. Put a pub crawl together with your BFFs, do sake bombs while you wail your heart out at a karaoke bar, play some sloshball with your friends in the park. The very persons who would most writhe and wail at their surroundings if transported back into early Greece, would, I think, be the neo-pagans and Hellas worshipers of today. Levine was the first in a line of investment bankers and traders brought down by insider trading charges in what was to become the scandal of all Wail Street scandals. Examples from Classical Literature Then they heard the wail of a prairie wolf a short distance to the westward. The mournful wail of a horn in the fog now and then announced the location of some lobsterman. Presently he heard the long-drawn, quavering, banshee wail of a locomotive. Down the room a low, mournful wail, almost a lullaby, went on and ceased not. Let Alecto, Megaera and Tisiphone shriek and wail ever so loudly, they shall not break it. Alfred had ended every statement with the wail that if he had not been robbed in Bucyrus he would be all right. But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach or wail the death-wail over them. Yet there is a final wail of despair at the unlikelihood of any change for good being effected. From somewhere in the dense timber along the river came a sudden, rageful, shivering wail. The bell-bird and the tui sing a requiem over them by day, while the morepork and the kiwi wail for them at night. But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach 16 or wail the death-wail over them. But I thought that there was a hoot of laughter in the high wail of the wind. It's the wail of a lost spirit, loosed temporarily from the horrors of purgatory. But Janet kept her ground, and continued to weep and wail and apostrophize the dead mother, or appeal to the orphan child. But the distention evoked a long wail which was at once drowned in another one. And the little Orestes will wail, not knowing what he doeth, seeing he is but a babe. A low wail of inappeasable sorrow, an undertone of dirges, mingles with his gay melodies. It was a sort of muffled wail, but there was no mistaking its positiveness. Then they heard the dreary wail of a prairie wolf, in the direction of the grove. He gurgled, stammered, and then broke into a wail of distress. Show More Sentences Linda looked at her as she buried her face and began to wail. The voice changed into what was almost a wail of indignation. But little Marian, taken with the new acquaintance, broke into a wail. And sobbing sweethearts, in a row, wail o'er the ocean foam. One growled deep in its throat, perhaps in answer to that wind-borne wail. The wind rose, and swept with a mournful wail through the ice-desert. From time to time there sounded from the house behind them the long, sad wail of a French horn. Some voices were singing an Afric wail of forsaken love and death. Therefore is it that the wail over a kind master is loud and long, as well it may be. Then the long-drawn wail of the brown owl drove them below in haste. Then silence again, save for the long-drawn wail of a curlew. Then the shriek died away again into a wail and a moan, and so da capo. From the floor she heard a tiny cough, and then a drawn-out wail. The plaintive wail which succeeded the passionate roar went to Meg's heart, and she ran up to say beseechingly. A sudden bellow from Gramps was as startling as the wail of a fire engine. With a wail of anguish the simian clutched at the precious object. Presently there arose a prolonged wail, slurring up through two octaves, and subsiding again. Outside there was a melancholy wail in the sough of the hill-wind. And Maud dived among the pillows to smother a wail of anguish at the prospect of being bereft of her treasures. Now it swelled into a smooth, impelling wail lulling him into drowsiness. Show More Sentences A snarl and a flash of fangs, and that dog would wail his indignation to the uncomforting stars while White Fang finished his portion for him. I heard the sound of the tom-tom above the wail of the wind. Far away, muted by distance, came the ululating wail of a coyote. Far off through the trees he can hear the wail of the wounded molossian. To mope, and wail, and lie on the carpet like a dead chicken? An eerie wail floated down from above and the apparition, whatever it might have been, was swallowed by the darkness. Her voice broke into a wail with the recapitulation of her woes. Blanche's excited, impudently abusive tongue and the General's plaintive wail as, apparently, he sought to justify himself in something. He did it this morning, and no sooner had his head appeared above the table than Algie, with a kind of sharp wail, struck him a violent blow on the nose with a teaspoon. I wail, pathetically, as Foxy and Ollie look on stony-faced. At that moment I heard the distant strains of the organ, a sad harmony to an undefinable chant, the wail of a soul longing to break these earthly bonds. For sinful as he is, Jonah does not weep and wail for direct deliverance. The shot struck the creature in the belly where there was no protecting armor, eliciting a new note which rose in a shrill whistle and ended in a wail. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of wail? Words that rhyme with wail What is the past tense of wail? What is the plural of wail? What is the adverb for wail? What is the adjective for wail? What is the noun for wail? Translations for wail Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Waikiki Waikato waifu waifs waiflike waifish wailed wailer wailers wailful wailing wails 4-letter Words Starting With w wa wai