Example sentences for: wailing

How can you use “wailing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (As the fundamentalist preacher thundered: In the fiery furnaces of Hell, there is wailing and gnashing of teeth.

  • I wanted to be the onewhose leaving let the hall fall into silence--silence, which I have, from talking, learned to love.But what, when no one loved me, have I donebut talk, talk, talk until I've said, like Peter,the thing I shouldn't say or, as tonight,until I've said exactly what I've had to say.And as I hurtled home past dark, tires wailing,I howled with every song on the radio,screamed some teen-age stranger's stupid words,shrieked somebody else's rage, somebody's lovetill I could bear my own voice, and its silence.

  • Newsweek looks at how children deal with death: "A child who has lost a parent feels helpless, even if he's a future King of England; abandoned, even in a palace with a million citizens wailing at the gates."

  • John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan)--note the initials--was found clutching two bloodied little girls and wailing that he "tried to take it back, but it was too late."

  • That eerie wailing at the end of the title theme is a team of trilling horns.


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