Example Sentences

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The manufacturers have been wailing over the decline of their business, have applied themselves to remedying conditions chiefly through pools, merchandising and economic wakes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Baby Bells such as BellSouth have been wailing that regulators won't let them into long-distance markets and that the long-distance companies don't want to compete anyway.

From Time Magazine Archive

There should have been wailing and weeping and cursing and praying, for handsome Jerry Strann was dead.

From The Night Horseman by Brand, Max