had wailed
- past perfect of wail.
Example Sentences
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A therapist emailed about a teenage boy with severe autism, who had wailed for hours inside a locked room in her school, pleading to be let out.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2022
Of course, Peach had wailed to high heaven when I’d slammed the back door.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
But by-and-by, when that songster had wailed for as much as a week, those high priests on the dancing-floor began to show signs of life.
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow
She stood waiting in her tracks, so to speak, until the final hexameter had wailed out its drawling length, and Miss Cutter pushed back the green shade.
From Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls by Schwartz, Julia Augusta
What of the woeful notes that had wailed and fled?
From The Haunted Hour An Anthology by Widdemer, Margaret
