Sentence examples for a piercing wail from inspiring English sources

Its moan becomes a piercing wail.

She sang the "long songs" of the steppes in a piercing wail meant to reach through vast empty space.

Beating her chest with one hand, she uttered a piercing wail, and then spoke tenderly to the body: "Come back to me, my daughter.

(Anderson) Zola Jesus and J.G. Thirlwell (Saturday) Zola Jesus is a Russian-American sphinx with a piercing wail and electro-industrial melodicism; her 2011 album, "Conatus" (Sacred Bones), landed like a heavier screed from Siouxie Sioux.

Zola Jesus is a Russian-American sphinx with a piercing wail and heavy, electro-industrial melodiousness; her 2011 album, "Conatus" (Sacred Bones), landed like a heavier screed from Siouxie Sioux.

Her first child, Sally (the family's names have been changed), who was born two years earlier, had been diagnosed with colic as an infant, after she developed a piercing wail that lasted for hours.

It felt as if his heart were going to burst in his chest and suddenly out of his mouth, from the depths of his soul, came an involuntary cry, a loud piercing wail that shocked everyone in the crowd who heard it.

He opened his mouth and out came a long, piercing wail, then silence, then another drawn-out scream.

I was like a human tea kettle, letting off steam until my cries of injustice became an unending, piercing wail.

The tones emanating from a car's exhaust pipes — a V8's deep bellow, say, or the piercing wail of a high-revving V12 — have long been inspirations to an enthusiast's ear.

The shriek rang out across the water, like the piercing wail of a frightened child: 'Aaah!