Example sentences for: wails

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

  • It does--loud wails fill the room.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • A helmet full of seawater turns out to be full of sloshing gore; a soldier with a gushing arm socket picks up his severed limb and staggers aimlessly; a man with his intestines on the outside wails through a last, protracted hemorrhage.


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