Howler is an English word with synonyms like jape or jest. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Howler meaning
- That which howls, especially an animal such as a wolf or a howler monkey.
- A person hired to howl in mourning at a funeral.
- A painfully obvious mistake.
Synonyms of Howler
Using Howler
- The main meaning on this page is: That which howls, especially an animal such as a wolf or a howler monkey. | A person hired to howl in mourning at a funeral. | A painfully obvious mistake.
- Useful related words include: belly laugh, platyrrhine, new world monkey, howler monkey.
- In the example corpus, howler often appears in combinations such as: howler monkeys, of howler, her howler.
Context around Howler
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Howler
- In this selection, "howler" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, collection, foster, adrian, monkeys, sabine and mount stand out and add context to how "howler" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a howler for loris and and a howler named tota. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "howler" sits close to words such as abdulkadir, abed and abhay, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with howler
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Tickets can be purchased online via Howler. (7 words)
Kill the Knight, then wail on the Howler. (8 words)
But these mistakes pale beside the howler the WHO made in 2021. (12 words)
They rode their luck – the forward pass that went uncalled to set up Jordan Riki’s try was a howler for the ages – but their willingness to chance their hand and and use the width of the field ensured New Zealand were always on the back foot. (47 words)
Armed with her blaster and lightsaber — and a howler named Tota as her ride — Sabine set out to find Ezra in unfamiliar territory, unaware that Thrawn had also sent Baylan and Shin to kill both Jedi when they reunited. (39 words)
Star Wars: The Vintage Collection Howler & Sabine Wren (Peridea) / $39.99 / See at Entertainment Earth / Amazon: “Sabine Wren fights off bandits with her howler mount as she searches for Ezra Bridger on the stark planet of Peridea. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Star Wars: The Vintage Collection Howler & Sabine Wren (Peridea) / $39.99 / See at Entertainment Earth / Amazon: “Sabine Wren fights off bandits with her howler mount as she searches for Ezra Bridger on the stark planet of Peridea.
Armed with her blaster and lightsaber — and a howler named Tota as her ride — Sabine set out to find Ezra in unfamiliar territory, unaware that Thrawn had also sent Baylan and Shin to kill both Jedi when they reunited.
But it wasn't long before Desprez cut the overall deficit back to 3-2 following a dismal decision to come out and clear his lines with a howler of a header.
They rode their luck – the forward pass that went uncalled to set up Jordan Riki’s try was a howler for the ages – but their willingness to chance their hand and and use the width of the field ensured New Zealand were always on the back foot.
But these mistakes pale beside the howler the WHO made in 2021.
But the one stand-out howler is Willie Miller in 13th position.
David Moyes' Hammers now in the relegation zone, fans were in no mood to let successful businessman Jacqueline off the hook for her howler.
Howler monkeys consume whole clumps of clay to sustain their diet, and muscular Woolly monkeys are seen using their tails to help make death-defying leaps from branch to branch in search of the juiciest fruits.
Kill the Knight, then wail on the Howler.
A Ben Foster howler and a needless Troy Deeney red card helped Arsenal climb back into the Premier League top four with victory at Watford.
Feedback on “Adrian howler makes for nervy ending but Mane and Firmino deliver Liverpool three points”.
They’ll be gracing the stage at Howler on Monday, 4th November in addition to their previously announced rollout of 21 other dates.
Tickets can be purchased online via Howler.
We made arrangements with Andrew in advance through the owner of Howler House and he was happy to drive us around throughout our stay, for a fee we considered more than reasonable.
A howler for Loris Karius & the nightmare evening is complete for the German goalkeeper pic.
Bannon taught wingnuts that they could be shit-flinging howler monkeys and still be loved by large swaths of America.
Jurgen Klopp said he was glad Alisson committed a howler as Liverpool were making their best start to a league season since 1990-91 because that should help the goalkeeper avoid a more costly repeat.
Liverpool were not at their best at Leicester and Alisson’s error was a nasty reminder of the Loris Karius howler that proved so costly in last season’s Champions League final loss.
Moments thereafter, a troop of howler monkeys begin throwing things at the two as they shriek and howl.
The baby black howler monkey, Calliope, spent the next two months with Salsa and Calliope’s 12-year-old sister Nakum in the care of Audubon staff.
Common combinations with howler
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: