Sentence examples for merest wail from inspiring English sources

We're ushered out with ticks, rustles, plinks and the merest wail of lap steel.

Explosives detonate — at one point, it seems, mere feet away — and sirens wail, but to the children and their caregivers a looming eviction is every bit as terrifying.

An asthmatic woman can't breathe because of the smoke from open fires; a little girl has passed out from fever; for a man with an injured spinal cord, the mere movement of his big toes makes him wail.

As soon as the 16-year-old arrived on O2 Arena's purple carpet (purple, as everyone there knew, is his favourite colour), delirium set in: girls in tears, sobbing, wailing, at the mere sight of the boy wonder from Stratford, Ontario.

Our wails are one wail.

Cry? Wail?

Sirens wail.

Children wail.

Cry cry wail!

Then comes another wail.

A wail goes up.