WAIL in a Sentence
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103 example sentences for WAIL, such as:
1. He wailed and clung to his mother.
2. A wail of sorrow went up from the people.
3. We could just hear the distant wail of a siren.
4. One of the small children began to wail with terror.
5. He set up a wail at leaving her arms and a welcome thought came to her.
2. A wail of sorrow went up from the people.
3. We could just hear the distant wail of a siren.
4. One of the small children began to wail with terror.
5. He set up a wail at leaving her arms and a welcome thought came to her.
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Meanings and Examples of WAIL
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wail
n. a cry of sorrow and grief
v. emit long loud cries
Classic Sentence: (99 in 7 pages)
1 He set up a wail at leaving her arms and a welcome thought came to her.
2 For sinful as he is, Jonah does not weep and wail for direct deliverance.
3 And a wail of anguish burst from him, great sobs shook all his frame, and hot tears ran down his cheeks and fell upon her.
4 Therefore is it that the wail over a kind master is loud and long, as well it may be.
5 Most does good Aeneas inly wail the loss now of valiant Orontes, now of Amycus, the cruel doom of Lycus, of brave Gyas, and brave Cloanthus.
6 When Aeneas entered at the high doorway they beat their breasts and raise a loud wail aloft, and the palace moans to their grievous lamentation.
7 Thrice, girt in glittering arms, they have marched about the blazing piles, thrice compassed on horseback the sad fire of death, and uttered their wail.
8 Now in the dwellings of rich Latinus' city the noise is loudest and most the long wail.
9 The plaintive wail which succeeded the passionate roar went to Meg's heart, and she ran up to say beseechingly.
10 The wind fell, for a second, round Thornfield; but far away over wood and water, poured a wild, melancholy wail: it was sad to listen to, and I ran off again.
11 I joined my wail to theirs, loud and bitter; but Joseph asked what we could be thinking of to roar in that way over a saint in heaven.
12 Before the door, were three tall poplar trees, which made it very dark within; and the wind moaned through them with a dismal wail.
13 The droning sound swelled louder upon our ears until it became one long, deep wail of distress.
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14 A wail of sorrow went up from the people.
15 If my ears did not deceive me there was a gasp and a low wail, as of a half-smothered child.
Example Sentence:
1 We could just hear the distant wail of a siren.
2 One of the small children began to wail with terror.
3 When they get in an extramarital jam, they cry and wail and ask for forgiveness.
4 He wailed and clung to his mother.