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

What of the woeful notes that had wailed and fled?

From The Haunted Hour An Anthology by Widdemer, Margaret

In that room Susan Yellam's first baby had wailed his regret at finding himself in a wicked world.

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley

He had wailed loudly for a task, and Hannah had given him permission to fill the woodbox and the water-bucket.

From Treasure Valley by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller