Sentence examples for the wail from inspiring English sources

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the wail

verb

To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish.

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The family listened for the wail of ambulances.

I could hear the wail of the air-conditioner.

Her solos were inflected with the wail of klezmer.

Once, only once, was the wail a response to theft.

Suddenly, there was the wail of a newborn baby.

The second booms louder than the wail of the freight train passing by.

Arlen's sound also incorporated the Jewish wail and the wail of the blues.

The wail of sirens from Bellevue Hospital and a neighborhood fire station was constant.

He listened to the wail of a harmonica in a swaying boxcar.

No sooner had she uttered her latest smear than we heard the wail of an ambulance.

The screaming stopped and he heard a different sound, the wail of a baby.

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