Sentence examples for wail that from inspiring English sources

A muezzin calls the faithful to prayer, his voice an eerie wail that makes me shiver.

His daughter doesn't seem to understand what's happening, but when the door shuts she lets out a wail that coils about you like constantine wire.

"The plaintive wail that goes up from Wall Street, whenever I corner it, is a touching tribute" to me, Nicholas van Alstyne announces in the opening minutes.

But that voice — a gorgeous wail that could be strong or fragile at will — carried her, and the strong persona came later.

Though I was at the time attending to genocide and mass extinction, my mother's pain prompted my turn at the altar where I was able to offer a primal wail that felt like the unanswered cry of a newborn child.

I was charmed by the mournful electric-guitar wail that opens "What the Price," a standout track on their relentlessly great album "Culture".

Dulli is not parked outside in an accommodating, let-me-take-you-out way: he's stalking you, and singing in a lusty man-wail that immediately justifies this entire high-above-par reunion record.

Unfortunately the show began with an extended session from folkie Alasdair Roberts, who makes the kind of hiccupy auld croon-wail that sends me screaming to Jessie J. Oh well.

The dancers are getting better at the wailing that takes place in their bodies.

Then we heard an eerie wailing that grew into deafening shrieks.

Some starved angrily, some aggressively, some with wails that could be heard halfway across a village.