Sentence examples for mournful cry from inspiring English sources

Their engine noise covered the bittern's mournful cry and sent the otters into cover.

I looked forward eagerly to the Kolokolo Bird's mournful cry in answer to the Elephant Child's perfectly innocent question about what the Crocodile has for dinner.

A mournful cry intended both as defiance to the oppressor, and as comfort to a man they regarded as their leader.

No doubt, New Yorkers of a certain age can still remember the used-clothes collector, singing out his mournful cry, "I cash clothes!" as he shambled from neighborhood to neighborhood, laden with used dresses, suits, hats.

A mournful cry went up from the tense, expectant crowd this afternoon in the cavernous rotunda of City Hall here when word came, via a large television set mounted on the marble steps, that San Francisco had been defeated in its bid to be host of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.

The bray of donkeys reverberated off canyon walls, indistinguishable from the mournful cry of Star Wars' Sand People.

Lamenting ostinatos and mournful cries bracket the more upbeat episodes, giving them a wistful air.

Mr. Mannigan and Ms. Griffin played over a recorded montage, which sounded like a storm brewing over mournful cries.

WASHINGTON — The day after a frigid, star-salted night spent tromping through the Alexandria woods with David Johnson of the Global Owl Project, and listening to the stridently mournful cries of wild barred owls that remained hidden from view, I stopped by the National Zoo around sunset to take visual measure of the birds I had heard.

In the last seconds of the final quarter at Pie Park I heard again the catastrophic sighing of the Collingwood social club, that fatalistic moaning like a dirge sung in a mullock heap, sung right through time itself, this awful and mournful crying because a Royboy had been given a free.

FILTER gave the album an 86% rating and reviewer Loren Auda Poin wrote "at times sounding like Hendrix operating a theremin, and elsewhere resembling the mournful cries of lonesome satellites the songs are accomplished and take surprising turns, shot through with a mellow fury that's endlessly appealing".