Expression of grief in song, music, or poetry.
A cry of sorrow and grief.
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Examples for "wail "
Examples for "wail "
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.
1 And hear the plaint of John Winthrop to his father in 1717:
2 The plaint of my own life vanished from me in a moment.
3 Only the lonely pillow and the midnight hour shall hear my plaint .
4 The Prince held up his hand, and the merchant ceased his plaint .
5 Then all the young girl's vexation was exhaled in a low plaint :
The passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief.
1 Then he fell-inthe gutter; and there was general sorrow and lamentation .
2 The lamentation of the people of God in their captivity in Babylon.
3 Weeping and moaning and lamentation was the principal order of the occasion.
4 In the castle of the Greylocks, meanwhile, there was sorrow and lamentation .
5 Whilst the prince made this lamentation , the Queen came before the King.
6 She will have time enough for tears and lamentation in her after-life.
7 His lamentation poured in an unbroken spasm of sound from his throat.
8 At the grave songs of lamentation were heard from women's gentle voices.
9 And all who were there present made great lamentation for the king.
10 His words were followed by weeping and much lamentation among the people.
11 The torment was far too racking for such futile fashion of lamentation .
12 We will make our lamentation to her of the things we suffer.
13 Those who dream of lamentation and sorrow, wake to join the hunt.
14 While making this lamentation , the worthy man finished saddling the gray horse.
15 The next twenty-eight years were filled with lamentation , and mourning, and woe.
16 Suddenly loud cries of weeping and lamentation were heard from a distance.
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