Example Sentences

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It’s more like a Wagnerian music-drama, a somber story built around intimations of doom and orchestrated with a soundtrack of pounding drums and high-pitched wailings and ululations.

From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2021

During one Loueke showcase, his distorted voice occupied the same trebly range as his guitar wailings and scrapings.

From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2017

He testily advised him “to leave the predictions of Cassandra and the wailings of Jeremiah backstage.”

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2010

“The same wailings from the new arrivals, the same barking and shouts from the guards,” a character in Atwood’s new novel, The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, recalls of Gilead’s convulsive birth.

From Slate

Dave had just reached the most thrilling part of his story, and in their imaginations the boys could hear the wailings of the ghost and the clanking of his chains.

From Bert Wilson at the Wheel by Duffield, J. W.