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Meanings of wail in English
Synonyms
Examples for "roar"
Examples for "roar"
1
May be seen; roar; will be appointed; have flown; has been recommended.
2
We'd hear that bullish roar across the school fields behind our house.
3
Over the roar, she didn't think Amos heard Fayez say, All right.
4
The roar of escaping gas was heard in Munroville, five miles distant.
5
I heard the roar of the guns when out in the hills.
1
Soon afterward, a flash and howl spoke eloquently of interesting events outside.
2
No; its repetition told us what it was-thehowl of the prairie-wolf.
3
But the boys in khaki jam the theater and howl their approval.
4
That said, they're also going to howl if it's just boringly rote.
5
The work is the Australian composer's howl of rage at environmental destruction.
1
The other yawl and its tackle roll and creak in the gale.
2
Everybody in the yawl was eagerly looking after the form of Tier.
3
Then the men stop rowing and the yawl drifts with the current.
4
But it is incredible that any more should get in the yawl.
5
The English had the yawl, and the launch had been driven away.
1
They chant, sing and ululate their praise -usually segregated from male supporters.
2
The others, women and their young, began to ululate.
3
Lucia and I added a little flourish by trying to ululate like we had seen our mothers do.
4
And then it was over, and she knew she'd passed her trial when the women began to ululate.
5
Such tasks, it says, can include collecting stones or threshing wheat while others sing, read recite poetry or ululate.
1
Emerson believes in him; Lowell not at all; Longfellow finds some good in his 'yaup;' but the truth is, he is in an amorphous condition.
2
"Hold your yaup," cried another boy, standing by; "if you don't like your bet, Hen Billings, I'll take it off your hands."
Usage of wail in English
1
Told that journalists didn't consider it news, he would wail, Why not?
2
The lost float up in shadowy forms, and wail in whispered despair.
3
A woman's heart throbbed in the lilt and broke in the wail.
4
Fitfully the words came on the wind, in an almost heart-breaking wail:
5
For a second, Willy heard the ghostly wail of her daughter's voice.
6
As he topped the rise, she gave a great wail of torment.
7
The little voice rose higher and higher in a sort of wail.
8
The wail of anguish in her voice went straight to his heart.
9
From below, rose a shrill wail; and the door ceased its groaning.
10
Through the open window, I heard a siren wail in the distance.
11
One more wail would go the round in that wind by night.
12
The two women, terrified, began to wail in concert with the dog.
13
And therewith across the muttering thunder came a wail of the ghost-music.
14
The wail and bark of a jackal came from the landward plain.
15
The third and last scream died out in a low, bubbling wail.
16
The voice sank away in a low wail, and Amzi sprang up.
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Translations for wail
Wail through the time
Wail across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common