Example Sentences

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In contrast, markets are baying for the Bank of England to hike when it meets on Thursday, the only question being by 25 or 50 basis points.

From Reuters • Jun. 19, 2023

Her "pantry brownies" recipe acknowledges a cruel truth — that "by the time your sweet toothed cravings are baying for brownie blood, you've probably already eaten all the chocolate in the house."

From Salon • Nov. 6, 2022

They, and trade unions, are baying for blood and while the report may not mollify them, it changes the nature of the headlines the day before the showdown.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2016

Now the hounds of modernism are baying over the palace grounds.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hark! her hounds are baying through the town.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton