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Wail meaning
To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish. | To weep, lament persistently or bitterly. | To make a noise like mourning or crying.
Example sentences (20)
The people move on, stoically exclaiming "if we are to wail, we might as well wail at the Kremlin".
In assuring that his cast was comfortable, he knew he could get them to wail on a moment's notice.
Noah Wail Sadaoui netted Goa’s only goal of the match in the 49th minute.
Regular soldiers (either with swords or shields) you can just wail on, same with the flame guys, just avoid their flame attacks.
They are gearing up to be their kids’ safe place where they can wail or rage through all of the feelings they’ve kept bottled up for the last seven hours.
A woman’s piercing wail broke the quiet and booms echoed from the fighting in Gaza, just a few kilometers (miles) away.
For Harry, the overwhelming silence of that funereal march remains emblazoned in his mind: "The occasional wail and screaming of someone.
He’s the most suspicious of her, but the welcome from the rest of St Jory is in keeping with the “widow’s wail”, the grim weatherfront which cuts off the island for days on end.
One very cold morning I heard a pack of coyotes wailing as I’d never heard them wail before.
The scammer may cry or wail dramatically, drawing a crowd and pressuring the accused to resolve the issue on the spot.
This only made my son wail more (he’s unpredictable) but the gesture made me want to cry, too.
Wail on Majima until he's down.
Get into bed and allow yourself to wail uncontrollably.
His voice is gruff, with a fair amount of gravel in it, sailing into that signature high-pitched wail, but the key to his ripely loquacious fury is that the more out of control he sounds, the more in control of every moment he is.
His writing was a wail of pain.
Kill the Knight, then wail on the Howler.
NASHVILLE (AP) — Little Richard, the self-proclaimed “architect of rock ‘n’ roll” whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevocably altered popular music while introducing black R&B to white America, has died Saturday.
New Yorkers are hearing a constant wail of sirens as weary ambulance crews respond to a record volume of 911 calls.
Relatives of civilian Bahsir Ahmad Khan who was killed during a shootout between rebels and Indian Forces wail during his funeral in Srinagar, Indian Administered Kashmir on 01 July 2020.
She also lives two blocks from a Manhattan hospital, where the wail of ambulances has given her a sobering reminder of the prioritization of essential services during the coronavirus crisis.