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Example sentences for "wailing"

Lexicographically close words:
wail; waile; wailed; wailers; wailful; wailings; wails; wain; wains; wainscot
  1. Millers, who was the other nurse, retired into the house, and by degrees the child's wailing was hushed and stopped, as if it were a young ventriloquist with something in its mouth.

  2. I had scarcely arrived at the total when a seventh was heard, as in the region of air, wailing dolefully.

  3. I told of how I went a-sailing to Europe in an open boat; the billows raved, the winds were wailing till I could scarcely keep afloat.

  4. He canned all his wailing and cut out the frown, and went forth a-smiling, and won a large crown!

  5. The procession thus defiled slowly through the forest pathways, and as they passed beneath the shadow of the pines, the mourners uttered at intervals and in unison a wailing cry, meant to imitate the voices of disembodied souls, .

  6. The day of deliverance will arrive, and, in spite of the sneers about our wailing over disappointed hopes, it will come soon!

  7. So appeared to sound out clear the sad, wailing voice of the prophet in these sorrowful days.

  8. II So it was that the broad-shouldered Seti went to be a soldier, with all the women of the village wailing behind him, and Ahassa his wife covering her head with dust and weeping by his side as he stepped out towards Dongola.

  9. But as again and again the kavasses came and opened midnight doors and snatched away the young men, her influence had grown so fast that her presence brought comfort, and she helped to assuage the grief of the wailing women.

  10. She did not smear her hair with mud, nor was she moved by the wailing of the mourning women nor the chanters of the Koran.

  11. When the fatal number fell to him and it was ordained that he must go to Dongola to serve in the Khedive's legions, he went to his father, with Ahassa wailing behind him.

  12. It is wailing through the room as I sit writing.

  13. With guile the great one Would they beguile, On the wailing thrall Laid they hand unwares, And cut the heart From out of Hjalli, Laid it bleeding on trencher And bare it to Gunnar.

  14. Gaunt and solitary, the tall spruce loomed up against the silver glow, its thick head sighing faintly in the night wind, as if in wailing answer to that far-away music in the skies.

  15. The unending loneliness and grief of it stirred him to the quick of his soul, and unconsciously his voice rose and fell softly with the wailing of the brute chorus.

  16. All the cries were alike, filled with that first wailing grief, except that of the swelling throat which was sending forth the call to food.

  17. He heard her voice crying after him, but the wild wailing of the spruce, and the storm in his brain, drowned its words.

  18. And as he listened there came to him faintly a distant wailing sound that he knew was the voice from that world, and at the sound the hair rose along Kazan's spine, and he whined deep down in his throat.

  19. It was not the low, sweet music of Cummins and the little Mélisse that he played now, but a wild, wailing song that he had found in the autumn winds.

  20. To them, as each stood for a moment in silence, there came the low wailing of a dog out in the night.

  21. There was something about it that frightened the little Mélisse, and she set up a wailing that sent Jan, in a panic of dismay, for Maballa.

  22. Far away, from the lonely depths of the swamp, there came the wailing howl of a wolf--a cry of hungerful savageness that died away in echoes of infinite sadness.

  23. He caught his breath quickly as a loud shout and the wailing yelp of a hurt dog rose for an instant above all other sounds.

  24. The man intimated that it was; and forthwith we commenced the preparations necessary to secure for the poor little wailing mite of humanity a chance of surviving the fearful journey.

  25. She ran round the kitchen, throwing her apron over her head, and wailing and moaning like a crazy woman.

  26. The incoming fishermen saw the baby in the water, and saw the two children screaming and wailing on the pier, and they put forward with all speed to make a rescue.

  27. While they were gone on this errand the Boolooroo begged to be released, whining and wailing for fear the knife would fall upon him.

  28. Trot now sent for the Princesses, who had been weeping and wailing and fighting among themselves ever since they learned that their father had been conquered.

  29. It became a flushed misery, wailing with a pathetic feeble voice.

  30. And he heard something wailing like a lost soul out toward Spirit Island,” put in Rod.

  31. I heard all sorts of creatures prowling around in the woods, and something wailing like a lost soul out there on the lake in the direction of Spirit Island.

  32. The bullets were more to be feared, the song of death wailing in flight, the unseen blow ending in a gasp and a stagger and a crimson stain upon the earth.

  33. His mother's wailing for him was the first mourning wail ever heard in Erin.

  34. In other cases in Ireland, by a spell put on the waves, or by the intuitive knowledge of the listener, it was revealed that they were wailing for a death or describing some distant event.

  35. To him without glory They would kill their piteous wretched offspring, With much wailing and peril, To pour their blood around Cromm Cruaich.

  36. At the Battle of Ventry "the sea chattered, telling the losses, and the waves raised a heavy, woeful great moan in wailing them.

  37. She going, told it to those who had been with him, as they were wailing and weeping.

  38. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast into the outer darkness: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

  39. It would be cruel, dreadful to have to leave you; but I would rather endure that and every other grief than allow Irene to take the place of Arsinoe or the black Doris as wailing woman.

  40. Think of that bright child, painted and kneeling at the foot of a bier and groaning and wailing in mock sorrow!

  41. Sometimes poor distressed Tokiwa sat down by the wayside to hush the wailing babe she carried in her bosom, or to rest the two little boys, who, tired and faint and famished, clung to her robes, crying for their usual rice.

  42. To list to the sound of the wailing blast, As the wan lamp dimly burns: For the daring might of the lion-hearted With Freedom's soul-thrilling notes hath parted.

  43. The blow was a mighty one, and so sudden that Will parried it with difficulty, at the same time almost staggering upon Toddles, who lay on his face wailing piteously.

  44. Coming, it was indeed, with a mighty, wailing roar.

  45. Scarcely had the beaters entered the tall reeds, evidently with trepidation, for a good many of them held back from the adventure, when a sound of loud wailing informed us that something had happened.

  46. Thus amidst a mighty wailing of those concerned and of their friends and relatives ended this remarkable trial, of which I give some account because it throws light upon the social conditions of Abati.

  47. Upstairs a child was wailing and the mother's voice could be heard soothing the little one to sleep.

  48. Shocked, startled and filled with a poignant mothering pity, Kathleen struggled with a longing to take him in her arms and comfort him as the mother was the little wailing child upstairs.

  49. Having pulled out the entrails and peritoneum, they were turned over, and carefully examined, whilst the women kept wailing and cutting [Note 81 at end of para.

  50. Among the Adelaide natives as soon as a person dies, a loud wailing cry is raised by the relations and friends.

  51. These mourning women were very skilful, I was told, and were relations of the dead whom they mourned, and whose good qualities mingled with their love and grief rose in wailing cry and floated weirdly over the ruins and up to the clouds.

  52. I have heard the wailing of men, women and children on the coach-top day after day, when these fortunate unfortunates were escaping from their native land forever.

  53. Every now and then might be heard the wailing of some fond wife or mother, contrasting somewhat strangely with the jests of those who had no tie to make the parting a sacrifice in the good cause.

  54. Suddenly a loud wailing arose, as many a mother looked in vain for the well-remembered form of her brave lad, who died fighting the Saracen; and the sounds of glad rejoicing were hushed in the presence of the angel of sorrow.

  55. Remorse for having left the conqueror of Solferino in the mire of the Meuse is lulled to sleep by the wailing of hired mourners; as if the shame of basely forsaking him could be masked behind a block of unblushing marble.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wailing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acute; blatant; crying; howl; howling; keen; lamentation; moaning; mourning; penetrating; piercing; piping; plaintive; puling; querulous; sharp; shrieking; shrill; sorrow; squeaky; thin; wailing; whining; whistling