Sentence examples for wailing from inspiring English sources

The word "wailing" is correct and usable in written English
It is a verb that means to make a lengthy, high-pitched sound in order to express sorrow or anguish. You can use it to describe a person expressing grief, or to describe a sound made by an instrument or a natural phenomenon. Example: The wind was wailing through the trees, sending shivers down our spines.

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wailing

verb

Present participle of wail

  • Craig ran off wailing because his friend pulled a prank on him.

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Well separated now from the new tarmac track, the fencing above the low white wall that Senna's car hit (it was a steel suspension arm from the front axle that fatally speared the driver's right temple) is now a shrine garlanded with wailing Latin graffiti, flowers and favours, many in the green and yellow of his country.

On I Am Sold, a two-note digidub bassline becomes the engine for the track, like a half-memory of Jamaica, while a wordless vocal note at Retrograde's climax turns imperceptibly into a wailing dub siren.

The final straw had come days later when his family were awakened by a neighbour's wailing.

A couple of customers compete with a baby wailing as they read out lists of products to the shop attendants who pick them off the shelves.

Elsewhere on the carpet Quentin Tarantino is having a bop with Uma Thurman (again), Xavier Dolan is wearing an outrageous tux (again) and the boring normal people at the barriers are wailing for stars' attention (again).

It was the sight of Therese and her family, sitting on the floor wailing and crying, that finally triggered Jade's tears.

In the great tradition of soap births, Linda was a wailing foghorn of a labourer, prompting horror from the assembled young'uns hanging around outside the hospital room.

It was reported that the violence of his Homeric battle scenes left children wailing in fear.

Now they have the treaty, many of the same people are muttering and wailing about unresolved problems hidden in its leaden prose.

Spain's regional leaders are baronial figures, whose slightest movement involves wailing sirens and limousines.

One woman burst from the back of an ambulance screaming and wailing: in the back were her three dead boys, none of whom could have been older than ten.

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