Sentence examples for wails I from inspiring English sources

Garner's wails ("I can't breathe") are conspicuously unheeded.

Teddie owns a public relations company, yet when faced with a conflict between meeting Hillary Clinton and keeping a promise to go to her stepson's art fair, she jumps up and down and wails, "I can't fix it, I can't fix it".

PICK OF THE WEEK Truly a hymn for everyone waking up to the first hangover of 2016, full of shame and Lidl champagne, Sia's Alive wails: "I had a one-way ticket to a place where all the demons go/ Where the wind don't change/ And nothing in the ground can ever grow/ No hope".

"At the end of the film, I was more destroyed than any other movie I've had to say goodbye to," she says now. "The boys went back to their real mothers and I was like" – she wails – "I don't have children any more!

In the feel-good-feel-bad movie "He's Just Not That Into You," Drew Barrymore's character wails, "I had this guy leave me a voice mail at work, so I called him at home, and then he e-mailed me to my BlackBerry, and so I texted to his cell, and now you just have to go around checking all these different portals just to get rejected by seven different technologies.

During a row with Matty and LaBoeuf, he wails, "I'm an old man who has been drawn into a wild goose chase by a harpie in trousers and a nincompoop".

He wailed, "I want something to eat".

Ríos remembered her weeping and wailing, "I have a son!

Grace Jones was on the soundtrack, wailing, "I lost control again".

A younger boy began to wail, "I want my mommy".

For instance, a toddler throwing a tantrum over a cookie might wail, "I want it.