Example sentences for: wails

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

  • The music preceded the title, he insisted, and it would be wrong to hear nuclear-age despair in the clangor of bows being bounced and scraped on the strings, of fingers tapping on wood, or of the siren wails produced by floods of sliding glissandi.

  • There was nothing left but shards of metal and the wails of the doomed.

  • Place, pensive, wails his fall whose presence was her pride;Time crieth out, My ebb is come; his life was my spring tide.Fame mourns in that she lost the ground of her reports;Each living wight laments his lack, and all in sundry sorts.

  • On the first Wednesday of every month, sharp at noon, an air-raid siren wails across Paris, startling pigeons and lending an edge to the midday news.

  • Arnold will smash his head into the ground, then yank Steve's ponytail till he wails like a baby.


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