Example sentences for: wailing

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

  • 1529–1599) also reported that before the Spaniards arrived, “many times and many nights was heard the voice of a woman who cried out in a loud voice, drowning herself with her tears, and with great sobs and sighs, wailing” (Horcasitas and Butterworth, 209).

  • There comes a point in life, he wrote, when "wailing is rightly discouraged, and groans are also considered a signal of extreme weakness.

  • 8 million can't be disappointing, and the press is wailing about "disappointing" grosses to atone for overhyping the film.

  • Have your camera ready to record the incredible sight of a wailing Japanese child beating a hasty retreat to its parents after being chased by a group of hungry deer in a feeding frenzy.

  • As the wailing reaches a crescendo, lights go on all across the neighborhood.


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