Example sentences for: wailing

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

  • 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.

  • A newly rich Russian crashes his Mercedes and starts wailing about the car: " 'How can you worry about your car,' asks a passer-by, 'when your arm is ripped off?

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

  • wailing at the loss of his fine thatch and simultaneously unable to keep from stroking his mown, velvety skull.

  • What sounds to the untrained ear like a baby wailing in desperate protest of abandonment is described by Ferber as a child "learning the new associations."


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