wailing
adjective
uttering a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitched or clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering.
wailingly
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a word derived from
wailing.
Example Sentences
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The wind soughed through her dream again, pitifully, wailingly, as it had often soughed outside the dugout.
From The Way of the Wind by Zoe Anderson Norris
She swayed to and fro in her rocking-chair, humming drearily some melancholy air, until, by-and-by, baby, worn out, wailingly dropped off asleep again in her arms.
From Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel by May Agnes Fleming
So they were silent as they rode over this green-and-violet moor, over which the curlew flew wailingly, as if complaining of this breach of their solitude.
From Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden by Charles Garvice
A woman's voice came wailingly from the musicians' gallery and Mr. Jobling uttered a low moan of abject fear.
From The White Blackbird by Hudson Douglas
In another he would have lain a crushed and shapeless mass in their wake; but as he shut his eyes for the leap there came to him distinctly, pitifully, wailingly, the cry of the child.
From The Way of the Wind by Zoe Anderson Norris
