wail
verb (used without object)
to utter a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitched or clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering.
had wailed
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past perfectof wail.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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
A while after, when the baby had wailed himself to sleep, she went again to the door to look down the path into the valley.
From A Round Dozen by Susan Coolidge
It was a reply to "The Appeal to the Dead," that Barrès, like an owl perched on a cypress in a graveyard, had wailed forth.
From Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War by Romain Rolland
As suddenly as he had wailed he stopped wailing.
From The Very Small Person by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott
