Example Sentences

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By daybreak, the winds from Typhoon Fung-wong which had howled all night had died down, and people came out to see the damage.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025

Some industry executives who had howled about widespread shoplifting are starting to spin a new narrative.

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2023

I wondered if the place on the sidewalk where I found him was still deeply stained, or if the rainstorm that had howled in the next day had scoured it clean.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2022

For the first time, Griffin’s initials were not chanted because he had romped for a touchdown or the public-address announcer had howled his name to the heavens as pyrotechnics went off.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2013

That fumbling page had unnerved me, just as much as the ceaseless tattering of branches and the gusting winds that had howled in my ears as I’d trudged across the city that night.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu