bawl
verb (used without object)
to cry or wail lustily.
are bawling
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present progressiveof bawl.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Of course, New Yorkers are bawling and wailing over the potential loss of overnight subway service largely because they have never known anything else.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2017
Sir: I'll wager that many Texans are bawling like wounded steers.
From Time Magazine Archive
What are the fifty newspapers, which those precocious urchins are bawling down the street, and which are kept filed within, what are they but amusements?
From American Notes by Charles Dickens
A rooster crows, geese cackle, men are bawling.
From Songs and Satires by Edgar Lee Masters
And then they are bawling from the first day of January until the thirty-first day of December.
From Ishmael Or, In the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
