Example Sentences

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“There was one poor woman in front of the apartment block next to ours who was wailing and crying,” Willard said, adding that the scene left him deeply saddened.

From Washington Times • Jun. 7, 2023

He was wailing and crying out in agony, Aughtry told Yvonne White.

From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2022

We slogged through, with no end in sight, and there was wailing.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2021

She was wailing as they checked her into the hospital to have her labor induced.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2021

She was wailing nothing I could understand or remember now, and she sounded like someone else, an anybody on the street.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee