wail
verb (used without object)
to utter a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitched or clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering.
will wail
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future tenseof wail.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Anh Vo will wail at the ocean’s edge.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2021
I, like most everyone who flies, understand that children will wail, scream and kick seats.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2016
If she die without a will, we are beggars, and her last breath will wail our destiny, and her last tear tell her too late her unavailing sympathy.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
Lawrence Challoner, the time will come when you will wail and whine and wonder why I don't come to you—why it is not my footsteps that you hear!
From The Red Mouse by William Hamilton Osborne
Thankt will wail With dry tears Baldur’s bale-fire.
From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by Catherine Ann White
