howling
Americanadjective
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producing or uttering a howling noise.
a howling mob.
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desolate, dismal, or dreary.
a howling wilderness.
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Informal. very great; tremendous.
a howling success.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- howlingly adverb
Etymology
Origin of howling
Example Sentences
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An azure booth is flanked by an abstracted mermaid sculpture, and elsewhere howling wolves are engraved into the bar tops.
From Los Angeles Times
In the dark of night, they would prowl through the country howling and moaning; and biting everything that got close to them.
From Literature
There was no temperature change, no wind howling furiously around some time portal.
From Literature
Then the next wave was under her and the wind was howling and hurtling her toward the smudge of Nim’s island—“Faster than a city train!”
From Literature
Outside, there was .howling wind and the whiteness of moonlit snow.
From Literature
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